I live in a wooded area. We have native pecan, sweet gum, willow white and red oak, hackberry, box elder and native persimmon in abundance.
Besides the usual garden stuff I have two species of Japanese persimmons (Huchiro and Eureka) as well as a small vinyard of muscadines.
Muscadines and persimmons both used for wine making. The persimmon is especially nice.
I understand the Japanese have been making persimmon wine for centuries but it’s almost unknown in this country except for “simmon beer” as made occasionally in the deep south.
We had a tree, but thats not a plant. Our nature strip is quite nice, the nicest in the street in fact, but that is just grass. I like plants that eat things, in my view that is the ultimate mother nature Fcuk off, hmm roots not long enough to gather water, just eat that passing animal.
Do these plants have to poo?
Would it be wise for them to swim in the half an hour after they have just eaten?
and having no hair, would they east bread crust? taking into reason they would have no fear of curly hair.
I’ve never had the fruit of a persimmons plant before. How does it taste?
and, tobbogonist, what?
you did remind me of a plant that we had a while ago, a mimosa, or sensitive plant. when you would touch it, the small leaflets would fold up.
we had some venus flytraps and sundew, but they too disappeared.
yeah plants
what a great thread unfortunately i have an attention span this big//////so i only made it part way through i will go back and read. But i am just learning about the plants in my area. I never really cared before and iM finding it quite inspiring to read these posts especially coming from thou whom are younger than I and it is always a kick in the ass(ncie one) wake up call that i have much to learn even when i am older in age, so thanks for this thread I may post more about he plants in my area, I mostly am learning about edible plants. i FOUND THIS wild onion up on mount fernie and I loved it ate part of it. Thats one of the best feelings ever walking through the wild forest and smelling the strong odours of onions…mmmmm
yah, the strong odour of onion…ON YOUR BREATH!!
Looking out the window I realized that I had not yet mentioned the seven or eight Queen Palm trees that we have lining our driveway and deck in the backyard. During one of the hurricanes last year, we believe that one of the queen palms swayed so much that it banged into the deck, loosening the cedar handrail at it’s joints.
One day we brought a coconut home from the beach. we set it down in the dirt on the east side of the house. now we have a 10ft tall coconut palm tree (it won’t give coconuts for at least another few years)
“If you’ve seen one redwood tree, you’ve seen them all.”
Ronald Reagan, when governor of Califormia, when the lumber industry wanted to cut down the trees for lumber.
I’m fond of plants. Even tho I eat them.
I have a venus flytrap but i like herbs too…wink
Do you feed it flies? Or hamburger? I used to feed mine both, but only SMALL flies and SMALL peices of hamburger, easy to digest.
I liked sensitive plants, too. I like plants that respond to touch.
We also have a few dracaena tricolor marginatas. These are mostly native to Africa & Madagascar and are more commonly called “dragon trees”. The entire Dracaenaceae family contains very cool looking plants/trees.
Apparently a red resin was once collected from these plants, called “dragon’s blood”, and used in alchemy, dyes/as a varnish, and medicine. Wikipedia says that “dragon’s blood” was also collected from Crotons, but I have always known crotons to be poisonous when eaten…
looking from my window i can see that presently i am cultivating several large dandilions,a veritable forrest of wild seeded budlia (nice for attracting flutterbys but they do tend to take over somewhat) and a lot of very overgrown grass. Being a landscape gardener,nurseryman and tree surgeon it should probably look better than it does but i live in a rented flat in Glasgow city centre so it’s nothing to do with me.
All of your gardens sound like full time jobs to me.