This moth or butterfly visited me while I was filming my Red Buckeye. To read my Red Buckeye Notes and see all the photos, here is the website. There are photos of the flowers, leaves, and nuts aka fruit aka buckeyes on the website.
Here is the YouTube video to watch where I share all of the information. I did get stumbled when I counted the leaves while recording because mine had seven leaflets and on the internet it said the difference between the Red Buckeye and the Ohio Buckeye are that the red has 5 leaflets and the Ohio has 7, but mine has both 5 and 7 leaflets! I had to go back the next day a rerecord some bits to insert.
I learned a new word too! Palmately! and the leaflets make up the leaf! Oh it is fun to learn!
Thanks for watching, liking, and sharing my videos on YouTube as I do make a small amount of money from there.
There is a bonus new website page today of the Ballerina Lilac Thrift. I only had this flower one year, the year I started my written journal, so it gets a website page and I did study about it some. I think I would want to try this flower again, and I did see it in the store this year, but I passed it up because of the drainage pipes were are putting in and the need to watch my budget. It does seem perfect for my garden, so maybe next year I will see it again. Or maybe I will see it in the clearance section later this year! Wouldn’t that be awesome.
Happy Friday ya’all! I am determined to get some projects knocked out this weekend. I feel a little stressed with all of the partially done large garden projects going on. They are so large that I need to attack each a little bit as I have time and some, including drainage pipe #1 is about to be done. I think I have finally figured out how we will finish off the end where the pipe comes out of the ground (and so does the stormwater! - hopefully!)
I through out (aka planted) some grass seed in the yard where we placed the pipe or moved the garden beds over and it messed up the grass. Here’s hoping that will turn into a bit of good-looking, appealing green. Last night’s rain was a nice one to water the seed and yet not wash it away. They call that type “a good soaking rain.”
I need a little bit of organized life restored. As I often say, “Everything has to get a little messy first before it becomes lovely.”
I did plant my four hanging baskets yestereday. To get to the baskets, I had to empty the entire shed (it is a small one) and so that has sparked a new big project of cleaning the shed out! Isn’t that the way things work? One task leads to another?
I will be putting out the small bit of garden ornamental type decorations that were in the shed now too. Plus, all the pots for the banana plants were pulled out, so those will be getting planted up soon as well.
Every time an Iris blooms, I am tying a color of yarn around it to identify what the Iris is or I am digging it up. It is proving a daily long-standing task, but I am glad for it. It’s is part of the garden revamping. I have way too many yellow ones and the purple ones seem to be disappearing. The goal is to gradually over the years identify them and move them into groups of like Iris so they do not cross pollinate and mess themselves up. We gave some to a neighbor, but it seems really rather sad to be tossing out so many, but it is what it is. I wish I could find people to take them.
Then after the 4th of July when I am able to move them as they will bloom next year, I am going to do a complete overhaul. They will all be dug up and replanted and I’ll even make a spot for the “not yet known” ones to bloom next year so they can continue to be sorted.
What are you doing in your garden right now?
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Cheryl
I need to get some gardening gloves. One of the things the yard needs attention given to is the spurge. So. Much. Spurge.
I should listen to an audio book while I do it.
I really want to plant tulips. Like some of the fringey ones.
And I need to weed...but I don't want to so there's that.😂