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Another set of photos from the hour outside yesterday. Fall is definitely here!
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A spray of bright, almost neon orange Japanese maple leaves grow out of a red branchlet on a potted tree. The leaves are palmate, with thin dentate leaflets. Two bright green, very prickly chestnut burrs sit in the middle of a cluster of leathery dark green leaves. The leaves are lanceolate, dentate, with strongly ribbed veination. The fruit and leaves have a common point of attachment at the end of a branch. A bright orange nasturtium flower shows its anthers and pistil behind flange-like orange hairs in the throat of the bloom. Five orange petals, flexing outwards, form a loose tube with black streaks at their base. The petals are large, overlapping and wrinkly like old linen. The round, blue-green leaves surround the flower, with white veins radiating out from the stem attachment at the center. Several green hops cones hang off a hop vine branch down a gray wooden fence. The cones are shaped by overlapping green fleshy bracts and look like small pine cones. You can see, looking up the fence, that there are a lot more branches full of cones above. Hops are in the hemp family, along with cannabis and hackberries ( I didn't know that!).
September 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Another set of photos from the outside power hour. I think someone sprayed their trees in the neighborhood: suddenly there has been a marked decrease in insects of all types, including wasps and honeybees
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Rocky Mountain maple leaves are turning color. Here, the focus is on one leaf with the rest of the branches leaves slightly blurry but echoing the colors. The leaf, which is palmate with five attenauted, dentate lobes, starts out yellow green at its attachment to the red stem. Then the colors grade from yellow to orange to red at the outer edges. The veins are yellow, which makes them easily visible in the red shading. A little bit of sunlight shines among the leaves, giving an autumnal glow to the photo. Fireweed is still blooming! We cut back the big main stem, and smaller stems grew out from the bases. The green leaves look like willow leaved.The four petaled flowers are bright magenta. The stamens are white and the anthers are yellow with a magenta stripe bisecting them. The pistil has a pink tip. The background in this photo is full of greens and yellows from turning leaves. These rosemary flowers on this shrub's branch are very pale lavender. Their top two petals are fused, the two side petals spread out like wings, and the bottom petal is long and frilly. You can't see the stamens in these, but the pistil forms a long arc, pressing up against the top petals and then down like a tiny white proboscis. The green, strongly aromatic leaves below the flowers are needle shaped. A small cluster of pink and white roses gives a last burst of blossoms before the end of fall. The single petals are slightly crinkly and surround a bunch of stamens. There are several buds ready to open among the green rose leaves.
September 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
carolannie.bsky.social
Ten minutes in the garden...more to come! I might do a one square meter in the park withput the dog, who wants to go go go!
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A round, dark olive colored leopard plant leaf contrasts with red persica flower wands, late summer color in the garden. The leaf is dentate , cordiform, and nicely veined, with varying shades of olive to bronze across its surface. Squirrels ate our acorns this year, leaving round cups with a polished interior and grainy outside surface. The inside of the acorn caps are tan. The outsides are pebbly gray and brown. They're sitting at the top of a stem, surrounded by evergreen oak leaves. You can see the stem's terminal bud, ready to grow next year. Thorny Japanese barberry is turning autumn red from its summer purple. The leaves are graded from green to yellow to bright red. You can't see berries in this photo but they are also turning bright Christmas red. Tiny pink and white star shaped flowers cluster at the top of this Autumn Joy sedum. They contrast nicely with the chartreuse colored leaves below.
September 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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10 more minutes in the garden, vegetables! Yes, there are flowers in there
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A squash plant is still growing, with closed green flower buds among the rounded leaved. There are pale green tendrils curling out in the air looking for the trellis. The stems, leaves, buds and tendrils are all covered with white hairs, soft on the leaves and buds, bristly on the stems and tendrils. Blue green broccoli leaves crowd around the stems. The leaves are long, undulating, with dentate edges and strong white veination. The sun is reflecting off the leaves. The effect is abstract. A big orange red tomato is hiding behind the plant's green leaves. The tomato reflects the sky. The leaves are crinkly, being of what is called a potato leaved type. There are a few holes where insects have had a leafy meal. Anaheim peppers are ripening on a pepper plant. The peppers are long, light green and glossy. The green pepper plant leaves are smooth and ovate. There is a white star shaped pepper flower close to the bottom, and one can also see a tiny fruit forming, with its pistil still attached.
September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Everybody knows what beetles are, right?
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Noticing Nature #1: Beetles
10 September
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September 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM