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Sun Sep 08, 2024 3:10 pm

Lots of gomphrena
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Ruellia against a fence
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Crinum
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Elephant ears are taking over the compost/garden waste area
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Shrimp plant growing in total neglect behind the garage
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Summer Jewel red salvia sprung up from a rogue seed
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Tue Sep 10, 2024 6:35 pm

Hard to capture but there are literally at least a hundred pollinators on this garlic chive patch everyday. Honeybee, carpenter bee, bumblebee, wasps, cucumber beetles, moth, hoverflies, houseflies, they all like it.
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Wed Sep 11, 2024 12:13 pm

I missed the pic of the season yesterday.

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I had some pears left to rot on top of wood chips in a wheelbarrow. There were a few bald faced hornets in the corner, and one big raggedy winged black swallowtail in the middle. Both wings falling apart. The butterfly was getting as much sugar as it could, since tonight would be cold again, but by the look of the wings, he had maybe only one more day to go. But still trying.

I went for the camera but a minute later just as I was halfway back the wind picked up and off he went. A fleeting moment. Now I had only the hornets photograph. I doubt I will see that cutwinged butterfly again.

Some of the next generation on the celery, but they had better grow up quick.
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Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:37 pm

Funny how the best pic is often the one that got away.
I had different dragonflies this year, mostly black including the large ones which are usually vivid shades of blue green or yellow. There was a small one with little yellow dots along the side, mostly black also, which I've never seen before. And very odd as well, the damsel flies aka darning needles are always a brilliant blue here but this year they were black.
Would've been nice to get pics but I kept seeing them when I was out watering and when I went out with the camera... nada.
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Sat Sep 14, 2024 6:42 pm

Fruit on passion vine:
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Wed Sep 18, 2024 4:52 pm

The Hummers are beginning to dwindle but the neighbors bees are all over this Salvia.
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Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:01 pm

The hummingbirds are here in force. These are my first pictures. Hopefully I'll get some better ones over time.

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Fri Oct 04, 2024 11:02 pm

I am down to just one lonely hummingbird @SpookyShoe, so you have plenty more on their way to you.
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Sat Oct 12, 2024 5:06 pm

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Clearing out some space for more crops.
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Sun Nov 03, 2024 7:56 am

Gleanings from the cover crop, that was sown after pulling the garlic. Still lots left to provide the cover, but I couldn't resist a little thinning before Oct 30 frost.
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Sat Nov 16, 2024 2:54 pm

Found these things growing on my neglected citrus root stock.
The original orange froze out.
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Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:41 am

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I love cool, crisp autumn mornings in the garden.
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Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:01 am

worth1 wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 2:54 pm Found these things growing on my neglected citrus root stock.
The original orange froze out.

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There’s a number of rootstocks used for citrus, I do believe. I remember researching the topic a bit when dad had his thriving blood orange grove. I guess each rootstock has advantages and disadvantages. Some of the rootstocks produce superior fruit, but might not be as cold hardy or as tolerant of certain soils or diseases.

https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/citrus/cult ... ytophthora.

Yours might be one of the Citrange types.

Sour orange as I remember it is one of the few rootstocks that produces a useful fruit of its own. I believe the citrange fruit are extra acrid and not particularly good for anything, but I could be wrong.

Trifoliate Orange, a native species around Brazoria county, is used for rootstock hereabouts. Tends to dwarf the scion, though, even though trifoliate orange gives the tree the greatest protection against frost.
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Thu Nov 21, 2024 11:23 am

karstopography wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:01 am
worth1 wrote: Sat Nov 16, 2024 2:54 pm Found these things growing on my neglected citrus root stock.
The original orange froze out.

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There’s a number of rootstocks used for citrus, I do believe. I remember researching the topic a bit when dad had his thriving blood orange grove. I guess each rootstock has advantages and disadvantages. Some of the rootstocks produce superior fruit, but might not be as cold hardy or as tolerant of certain soils or diseases.

https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/citrus/cult ... ytophthora.

Yours might be one of the Citrange types.

Sour orange as I remember it is one of the few rootstocks that produces a useful fruit of its own. I believe the citrange fruit are extra acrid and not particularly good for anything, but I could be wrong.

Trifoliate Orange, a native species around Brazoria county, is used for rootstock hereabouts. Tends to dwarf the scion, though, even though trifoliate orange gives the tree the greatest protection against frost.
I imagine I'll try to make marmalade out of them.
Keeping an eye on them to see when they get ripe.
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Sat Dec 14, 2024 4:33 pm

It hasn't gotten cold enough for some of the summer plants to die back. The basil remains unharmed and the pentas are still doing well, although both won't "thrive" in cooler temperatures.

I potted up some nursery starts that are considered winter plants in my area. Pansies, violas, dianthus, and alyssum. I have a large pot of snapdragons growing, they have buds but haven't bloomed yet.
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I have several pots of pentas like this one that are still left over from summer.
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Sat Dec 14, 2024 4:56 pm

@SpookyShoe I noticed some basil volunteers out in the beds, plus lots of zinnia volunteers out there, too. I’ve been weeding out the zinnias, but have mostly let the basil alone. Not exactly the normal time for basil or zinnias.
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