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[Friends just call me Ross]

1 hour ago, pnutts said:

Is the moss only on the north side or is it gnarly too?

I don't know about gnarly moss, but, in 69 years of admiring trees, this is the first one I have ever seen that starts out with a skinny trunk that suddenly gets fatter.  

 

Must have 90 proof sap flowing through it for it to be so confused about which way is up.

 

[CHecker]

My husband came home with this little plant a couple months ago, knew I loved sunflowers but wasn't growing them this year. How sweet. Look how it compliments this space.

 

This is a snowball Hydrangea, I've wanted this particular species since I was about ohhhhhh 7 years old! Always ended up with the blue dinner plate variety, meh ok. My friend and fellow sister is a master gardener, she gave me a cutting 2 years ago. Last year I was blessed with about 4 or 5 blooms, this year look at her! She's beautiful and as the season rolls on her blooms will develop further into giant blossoms, really giant. Keep you posted. I was a bit concerned that the leaves were a bit pale but Lynn said she looks very normal, leaves are looking healthy. Shew, so glad.

Edited July 20, 2020 by bagwell1987

[dove]

9 minutes ago, bagwell1987 said:

My husband came home with this little plant a couple months ago, knew I loved sunflowers but wasn't growing them this year. How sweet. Look how it compliments this space.

 

This is a snowball Hydrangea, I've wanted this particular species since I was about ohhhhhh 7 years old! Always ended up with the blue dinner plate variety, meh ok. My friend and fellow sister is a master gardener, she gave me a cutting 2 years ago. Last year I was blessed with about 4 or 5 blooms, this year look at her! She's beautiful and as the season rolls on her blooms will develop further into giant blossoms, really giant. Keep you posted. I was a bit concerned that the leaves were a bit pale but Lynn said she looks very normal, leaves are looking healthy. Shew, so glad.

Envy, uh..desire your green thumb..

[Qapla]

Nearly 40 years ago, long before we all carried cameras with us all the time (no cell phones back then) another brother and I were on a job in a rural/country area. The home was surrounded by a very lush wood with some very large trees. One tree, well, I guess I should say two trees really stood out since they "shared" a large limb.

 

This particular limb was at least 2-3 feet in diameter as it grew away from the trunk of the one tree. I arched up and away and got narrower, as limbs do, for about 20' when the girth of the limb became constant for another 5 feet or so before it started getting larger around again. It continued for another 20 feet or so where it was growing out of another tree on that end with the limb again being about 2-3 feet in diameter as it reached that trunk. There were no signs of it being to different limbs that had "wrapped around" each other - it was just a continous limb coming out of one trunk and going into the other trunk.

 

Wish we had gotten some pics ... 

[CHecker]

John, seen pics of this. Whole forests can come from 1 tree! Lovely experience! I hope to see it one day

[dove]

24 minutes ago, Qapla said:

Nearly 40 years ago, long before we all carried cameras with us all the time (no cell phones back then) another brother and I were on a job in a rural/country area. The home was surrounded by a very lush wood with some very large trees. One tree, well, I guess I should say two trees really stood out since they "shared" a large limb.

 

This particular limb was at least 2-3 feet in diameter as it grew away from the trunk of the one tree. I arched up and away and got narrower, as limbs do, for about 20' when the girth of the limb became constant for another 5 feet or so before it started getting larger around again. It continued for another 20 feet or so where it was growing out of another tree on that end with the limb again being about 2-3 feet in diameter as it reached that trunk. There were no signs of it being to different limbs that had "wrapped around" each other - it was just a continous limb coming out of one trunk and going into the other trunk.

 

Wish we had gotten some pics ... 

Awww you were really building up the anticipation of seeing it, specially since this is the Post a Picture thread..maybe sometime.
But your description was very descriptive..

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17 minutes ago, bagwell1987 said:

John, seen pics of this. Whole forests can come from 1 tree! Lovely experience! I hope to see it one day

Perhaps the Quaking Aspen may be the biggest single plant in the world, a single colony stems from a single tree connected by a singular root system. A thousand acre grove can be a single plant. When the originator of the grove dies the whole grove might die.

 

[CHecker]

Oh wow, didn't think of that

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Nearly 40 years ago...
Wish we had gotten some pics ... 

Thanks for the description John.

When you next have some spare time, grab a camera and go look for the tree . It might still be there?

Old (Downunder) Tone

[countrykaren]

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[jayrtom]

6 hours ago, Dove said:

But your description was very descriptive..

Did you count 1000 words? 🤔 (A pic is worth...)

Edited July 20, 2020 by jayrtom

[jayrtom]

On 7/16/2020 at 8:56 PM, pnutts said:

The joys of auto correct. Even messes up a joke.

 

This goes to my list of "most funny memes"

[dove]

8 hours ago, countrykaren said:

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What kind of flower? At first I thought rose, but I can't see any thorns on the stems...

[Qapla]

1 hour ago, Dove said:

What kind of flower?

 

They are "nice, reddish" flowers ....

[CHecker]

I took it as wild rose

[Friends just call me Ross]

[CHecker]

Sister sent this to my email today....I told her I was obligated to another project!

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1 hour ago, bagwell1987 said:

Sister sent this to my email today....I told her I was obligated to another project!

That really leaves lot to the imagination. 

[rocket]

18 hours ago, Dove said:

What kind of flower? At first I thought rose, but I can't see any thorns on the stems...

It's a rose with a terrible blackspot infection. Not all rose bushes have thorns, some are bred to be thornless.

 

https://www.heirloomroses.com/info/care/roses/thornless-roses/

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Fortunately, nature provides exceptions to the “every rose has a thorn” rule. While there are not many, some truly thornless roses do exist. 

 

[countrykaren]

27 minutes ago, rocket said:

It's a rose with a terrible blackspot infection. Not all rose bushes have thorns, some are bred to be thornless.

 

https://www.heirloomroses.com/info/care/roses/thornless-roses/

 

I posted the Rose to see if you all would look at the beauty of the Rose or would  you focus  on the imperfections?? Pondering the thought!

Edited July 21, 2020 by countrykaren
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[rocket]

9 hours ago, countrykaren said:

I posted the Rose to see if you all would look at the beauty of the Rose or would  you focus  on the imperfections?? Pondering the thought!

OH, that's more than imperfections, it's more like adultery in a marriage. Destroys the plant. 

[sania]

Dianthus...in my balcony garden.

[dove]

On 7/22/2020 at 1:50 AM, sania said:

Dianthus...in my balcony garden.

They look like pink kiwi....😃

[Friends just call me Ross]

Moon Hill in Yangshuo, China :  

 

Wonder how that hole got there?  

[pnutts]

12 minutes ago, Friends just call me Ross said:

Wonder how that hole got there

Isn't that caused when they did movie "The Core"  They did test the beam above ground 1st. 🤣