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Snap Dragons. Annuals. Can't survive winter unless it is very mild. Last winter was far from mild with ridiculous amount of snow and insane numbers of days with sub zero temperatures and yet here we are. NOT growth from reseeding, these are new growth from the plants I put in last summer. Plants are almost as unpredictable as the weather.
Hay bales dry in the field at Paul and Helen's farm. Hay fields don't need to be reseeded every year as do corn and soy fields but need occasional fertilizer to boost production. When growth is at its maximum during late spring or summer, the hay is cut, allowed to dry in the field, turned with a mechanical rake, and finally baled. Hay must be fully dry in the field before baling or there is a risk of spontaneous combustion. Barns occasionally burn when wet hay is taken in too soon.
Location: East Manchester Township, York County, PA
"I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight."
— A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 2, Scene 1: Oberon)
William Shakespeare
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Tiny Southern Wood Violets (Viola hirsutula) have popped up —not in midsummer but at spring's onset— in...
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
22 March 2021.
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▶ "Found throughout North Georgia and the other Appalachian states, Southern Wood Violet (Viola hirsutula), is an herbaceous perennial that can grow to six inches tall with violet blooms which normally occur in May. It is easy to grow in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. It propagates itself by reseeding and creeping stems. It is known for its lavender-blue spring flowers. The flowers appear on top of leafy stems and are about one inch across."
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"Granville is a true links course – perhaps the only one in France to have retained a pure duneland track. It stands alongside the great links courses of Scotland and Ireland providing a golf course true to the origins of the game. In recent years, the club has made a concerted effort to restore the natural links quality of the course by reseeding with carefully chosen grass varieties and by refurbishing the bunkers. The course celebrates its centenary in 2012 but the original design of Colt and Allsion still provides a stern test – especially if the wind blows. There are some spectacular tees giving views over the whole course and far beyond over the sea to Jersey. There are several plateau greens in true Colt style and many of the greens have dramatic slopes with banks behind allowing all manner of shots to be played."
What you actually see here is a dandelion which my OH brought me because I'm not allowed to go around the field behind my home due to Lockdown . This is because I'd have to venture outside of my garden , up the road and around a corner to access this myself.. I sat on my patio and held it to photo it with the lawn as the backdrop. That green too has temporarily disappeared because it's been reseeded by now to repair damage cause by the wet winter and in order to prevent my neighbour's pesky doves from eating the seed it's been covered with a white meshing.
I planted some last year in a pot near this spot and they reseeded themselves for a wonderful surprise this year.
From the Internet.......
"Deptford Pink
Dianthus armeria
Pink family (Caryophyllaceae)
Description: This annual or biennial plant is about 1-2½' tall and very slender in appearance. It branches sparingly above the widely spaced pairs of leaves. The stems are slender, round, and stiff. They have patches of fine white hairs beneath each opposite pair of leaves, otherwise they are mostly glabrous. The opposite leaves are up to 3" long and 1/8" (3 mm.) across. They are linear (although wider at the base), sessile, and usually slightly pubescent. The base of each pair of leaves wraps around the stem in a sheath, where the stem is somewhat broader and knobby. The upper stems terminate in small clusters of pink flowers. The flowering stalks (peduncles) are more hairy than the stems, otherwise they are similar in appearance. Each flower is about 1/3" (8 mm.) across, consisting of 5 spreading petals, a tubular green calyx with 5 teeth, 10 stamens with pink anthers, and 2 styles. The petals are pink with small white dots. Each petal is wedge-shaped at its base, and crenate or dentate toward its outer edge. The pubescent calyx is about ¾" long. It has about 10-22 fine nerves running along its length. There are usually 3 narrow leaf-like bracts that are about as long as the calyx at the base of the flower. Each cluster of flowers and bracts often have V-shape. Each flower is replaced by an elongated seed capsule containing numerous seeds. Each seed is orbicular or reniform and flattened with small bumps across its surface. The root system consists of a slender taproot. This plant spreads by reseeding itself."
These flowers are so tiny , I picked a few for photography, and brought them indoors.
My aim is to shoot all the wildflowers I see this year, with the iPad...this works well enough for some species.....but drastic measures must be taken for others. If you are curious, look at the album including then all, as I get them.
For We're Here - Pictures with Poems.
We scatter seeds
And water deep.
We fertilize,
And then we sleep.
And in the morning
When we rise,
Fresh new shoots
Delight our eyes.
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Reclaimed land from coal mining activities; reseeded, replanted and returned to agricultural use, there is reckoned to be the best part of one million tonnes of coal beneath these fields even now. A change in political climate is all it takes...
A scene from the garden.
Third generation seeds/natural reseeding.
Tours available by appointment.
Please bring your camera, garden clippers and a vase.
Also bring one bottle (750 mL) of wine.
In fact, also bring a bottle for yourself. :>)
I can't resist doing this type of photography when I think it may work. Flower-of-an-hour is a plant that is a summer annual and is a sprawling vine. This plant spreads by reseeding itself and has been considered a weed. It only lasts a fraction of a day and will not open at all if it is cloudy. Santa Maria, CA.
After a day in Padstow a quick stop at Bedruthan Steps. Would have liked to have visited with a reseeding tide to get some lovely rock pools so had to work quick here with the tide coming in fast. One for another year possibly for sunrise if conditions are right with the tide going out.
Copyright Simon Lathlane
'Wild Isles and safe havens?.
Hundreds of Barnacle Geese, Branta leucopsis in this image foraging on grass on the Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland...They fly out from the estuary and roosting each morning to spend their day out grazing on the fields. Most of the geese in this image have their heads down, but there are always a few 'look outs' watching for danger...Theres at least half a dozen on the look out in this image!
The arrival of the Barnacle Geese is one of the many nature spectacles on Islay. From late September thousands of Geese arrive from Greenland and congregate on the tidal mudflats at the head of Loch Gruinart and Loch Indaal. These are also their main roosting sites. After a while they disperse across Islay for the winter seeking feed on pastures and stubbles. Good areas to see them in addition to the Loch Gruinart RSPB Reserve are around Loch Gorm, Bridgend and Laggan.
However, the geese are no longer safe. In the past ten years White-tailed Eagles, our biggest bird of prey here in the UK have learned to prey on Barnacle Geese and up to a dozen White-tailed Eagles now spend their winter on Islay. The brilliant new BBC series ‘Wild Isles’ recently shown on TV, introduced and narrated by Sir David Attenborough shows some brilliant footage in Series 1 ‘Our Precious Isles’ and Series 3 ‘Grasslands’ of Eagles filmed for the first time predating on Barnacle Geese and also shows the work that has been put in by the RSPB and others over the past five and a half years to capture the amazing footage.
Barnacle Geese Notes and Information…
Identification:
Easily distinguished from other black geese such as Canada Geese and the smaller Brent Goose by its creamy white face, boldly contrasting with its black hind crown, black neck and breast.
There is no seasonal change in their plumage...Both male and female remain similar in appearance.
Barnacle Geese Habitat That Is Provided on Islay:
Agricultural grasslands; Natural and semi-natural grassland; Arable stubbles; Saltmarsh and dune grasslands.
They also roost offshore on uninhabited islands, beaches and occasionally inland as well as on the tidal mudflats,
Our mild climate across Britain and Ireland attracts more than half a million geese each winter, which makes us a vital refuge for these beautiful long distance travellers.
Many thanks for visiting my Flickr pages ...Your visits, interest, comments and kindness to 'fave' my photos is very much appreciated, Steve.
Here's what the farmers say! Notes From The Herald News...
Grass-guzzling geese risk livelihoods of Islay farmers
published 21st April 2012, Scotland, By Barry Didcock.
Barnacle and White-fronted Geese from Greenland winter on Islay in rising numbers, hitting pasture renewal, except for the patches fenced off by farmers.
Home to some of the world's best-loved whiskies, Islay is well used to overseas visitors and to date the islanders have offered a warm welcome to one and all.
But a particular group of 'tourists' that flies in annually is fast out-staying its welcome – a flock of 50,000 geese from Greenland, which winters on the island and which local farmers say is decimating their grazing land.
"These geese arrive in the middle of October and leave in the middle of April and for six months they just eat grass – and grass is our livelihood as livestock farmers, in a disadvantaged island location where farming is very expensive," said Gill Johnstone, Islay's representative in the farmers' union, NFU.
The barnacle Goose and Greenland White-fronted Goose are internationally protected species and for 30 years Islay has been at the forefront of conservation schemes aimed at increasing their numbers.
The island is now the winter stopover for 70% of the world population of the species and in 2011 the BBC's Autumnwatch programme visited Islay to feature the mass migration.
But now the island has become a victim of its own success, with the birds arriving in such numbers that once-green fields have become muddy patches.
The sight, said Ms Johnstone, is "jaw-droppingly awful" and leaves farmers with significant and increasing bills for reseeding the pasture, which they require for their livestock.
As part of the conservation scheme, the farmers' losses were supposed to be offset by Government payments, but with annual conservation budgets cut as a result of the recession – down from just under £1 million to £654,000 – and with geese numbers continuing to rise, some of Islay's farmers are on the point of collapse.
Ms Johnstone said: "The overall budget was slashed by close to 25% last year and this year they're talking about another 10%.
"The nub of it is the Scottish Government is now not wanting to minimise our economic loses. But it doesn't matter what state the world economy is in, these geese will arrive around October 14 and leave around April 7 every year. And in between those dates they eat – every day and often at night too."
The geese are also affecting the island's booming whisky industry. Ms Johnstone added: "If we didn't have geese many of the farmers would be able to plant barley under contract with the local distilleries, which the distilleries are very keen for them to do. But you can't plant barley until the geese have gone."
After receiving several letters on the subject, The Scottish Farmer magazine has highlighted the difficulties the islanders are facing in a cover story in its current edition.
Islay farmer Craig Archibald told the publication: "The geese are at the level where there are just too many – either for their good or the good of the habitat. This is unsustainable conservation."
Mr Archibald caged off a piece of his land to highlight the difference between grass which the geese have access to and protected pasture.
Asked how his precious grass pasture had fared under this year's avian onslaught, he said: "Grass? What grass?"
He added: "It is time the politicians realised that if they need to cut the compensation bill, they will need to cut the amount of geese too. Without farmers on Islay growing grass, these geese won't have a habitat to come to. There has to be a balance." The Herald News Notes.
Erythranthe naiandina (Mimulus naiandinus) cultivar, NE Seattle, King Co., WA, 11 Jun 2014.
I've posted pics of this gorgeous species previously, as it reseeded and bloomed for us for three seasons in a row before disappearing. It came from a seedling from Annie's Annuals, but it is evidently no longer available there, at least at the moment. It is native to the southern Andes Mountains.
Some purple poppies in my garden before the red dust storm came and blew the petals off the lot of them away. We are expecting another dust storm tomorrow, the weather sure has been weird lately.
Love these poppies, they magically appear every year.
Textures by me
Reseeding tide and coming storm
At the beach just after high tide wondering if I am going to get wet from the clouds or wash from the waves.
And a little Veronica starting to bloom.. Lupine all died 2 winters ago but reseeded themselves and have come back. I hate my new fence but dislike woodchucks destroying my garden even more.
Need all the help to fight breast Cancer,
Cosmos bipinnatus is considered a half-hardy annual, although I collect the seeds this 7 foot Cosmos grew in a pot from reseeding, it just bloomed for the cause,
This is the view I get from the ground up.
Big Lonely Doug stands in the middle of a clearcut near Port Renfrew. It was left standing, most likely to provide cones for the reseeding of the forest. This is Canada's second largest Douglas Fir. It's estimated to be 1000 years old. It measures 12 meters (39 feet) in circumference. A group recently climbed to the top of Big Lonely Doug in order to directly measure its height by dropping a line from the top of the tree down to its base. Big Lonely Doug was found to be 66 metres (216 feet) in height. Higher than a 20 story building! The area was clearcut in 2012.
Gaillardia or blanket flowers reseeded themselves for a second blooming in late fall. Bright and happy flowers
Circle Dance: Shinnecock Reservation, L.I., NY: Labour Day Powwow, September 2006.
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Shinnecock Tribe
Rte 27-A, Montauk Hwy
Southhampton, NY 111968
631-283-6143
State recognized; (no BIA office liason - seriously ridiculous!)
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Shinnecock Indian Nation: An Ancient History and Culture.
Since the beginning, Shinnecock time has been measured in moons and seasons, and the daily lives of our people revolved around the land and the waters surrounding it. Our earliest history was oral, passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and as far back as our collective memory can reach, we are an Algonquin people who have forever lived along the shores of Eastern Long Island.
Scientists say we came here on caribou hunts when the land was covered with ice. But our creation story says we were born here; that we are the human children of the goddess who descended from the sky. It was she, the story goes, who caused the land to form beneath her feet from the back of Great Turtle, deer to spring forth from her fingertips; bear to roar into awakening, wolf to prowl on the first hunt. It was she who filled the sky with birds, made the land to blossom and the ponds and bays to fill with fish and mollusks. And when all was done, the Shinnecock, the People of the Shore, appeared in this lush terrain. We are still here.
As coastal dwellers, we continue to prize the bounty of the sea, the shellfish, the scaly fish, which for thousands of years provided the bulk of our diet. We were whalers, challenging the mighty Atlantic from our dugout canoes long before the arrival of the big ships, long before the whaling industry flourished in the 19th century.
In the 1700's, we became noted among the northeastern coastal tribes for our fine beads made from the Northern quahog clam and whelk shells. The Dutch, who arrived on our shores before the English, turned our beads (wampum) into the money system for the colonies.
The Shinnecock Nation is among the oldest self-governing tribes of Indians in the United States and has been a state-recognized tribe for over 200 years. In 1978, we applied for Federal Recognition, and in 2003, we were placed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' "Ready for Active" list.
Traditionally, decisions concerning the welfare of the tribe were made by consensus of adult male members. Seeking to shortcut the consensus process in order to more easily facilitate the acquisition of Indian lands, the Town of Southampton devised a three member trustee system for the Shinnecock people. This system of tribal government was approved by the New York State legislature in February of 1792. Since April 3, 1792, Shinnecock Indians have gone to the Southampton Town Hall the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April to elect three tribal members to serve a one- year term as Trustees. In April of 2007, the Shinnecock Indian Nation exercised its sovereign right as an ancient Indian Nation and returned to one of its basic Traditions: it bypassed the Southampton Town Hall and for the first time since 1792 held its leadership elections at home, where they will remain.
The Trustee system, however, did not then and does not now circumvent the consensus process, which still remains the governing process of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Major decisions concerning the tribe are voted yea or nay by all eligible adult members, including women, who gained the right to vote in the mid-1990s. Also in that period, the Shinnecock Nation installed a Tribal Council, a 13 member body elected for two years terms. The Council is an advisory body to the Board of Trustees.
Today, we number over 1300 people, more than 600 of whom reside on the reservation adjacent to the Town of Southampton on the East End of Long Island. While our ancestral lands have dwindled over the centuries from a territory stretching at least from what is known today as the Town of Easthampton and westward to the eastern border of the Town of Brookhaven, we still hold on to approximately 1200 acres.
With modest resources, we have managed to build a community to help us better meet the demands of an ever expanding and intrusive world. In addition to the Shinnecock Presbyterian church building and its Manse, our infrastructure includes a tribal community center, a shellfish hatchery, a health and dental center, a family preservation and Indian education center, a museum, and playgrounds for our children. Also on our list of recent achievements is the design and development of an official Shinnecock Indian Nation flag and an official seal.
Our skilled craftspeople and fine artists find employment within the Tribe as well as the surrounding area. The number of tribal members holding advanced degrees in law, business, medicine, social sciences and liberal arts continues to grow, and tribal members hold positions of responsibility in all areas, including teaching, banking and counseling, both within and outside the Shinnecock community.
One of the earliest forms of economic development that the Shinnecock Nation undertook was to lease Reservation acreage to local area farmers for their crops, mainly potatoes and corn. While the project did bring in a small income for the Tribe, the resulting damages from pesticides leaking into the ground water and polluting our drinking water supply were enormous. We had great expectations for our shellfish hatchery (Oyster Project) but brown tide and general pollution forced it to close before it had the chance to develop into the business enterprise it was planned to be. In the summer of 2005, the Tribe began reseeding parts of its waterways with oysters, and celebrated a renewal harvest of Shinnecock chunkoo oysters at the Tribal Thanksgiving Dinner, November 2006.
At the present moment, the Shinnecock annual Powwow is the economic development project of record for the Shinnecock Nation. Revived in 1946 as a benefit for our church, the Powwow has evolved into an event that hosts thousands of visitors. But we are at the mercy of the weather. For the past two years, rainstorms have forced us to drastically revise our budgeting plans. We are now exploring Indian Gaming as a means of attaining the much needed self-sufficiency that will enable us to perform the sacred duties laid out for us by the Ancestors — to protect, manage and maintain the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
By Bevy Deer Jensen
Shinnecock Nation Communications Officer
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For more information on the Shinnecock Nation, please visit: www.shinnecocknation.com/
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photography: a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2006.
While looking at my garden this morning, I noticed this onion pod beginning to split open. Of course, I had to run back into the house for a photo.
I never thought about an onion ever becoming the subject of one of my favorite photos, but this one is. Everything seemed to be right to make it a good shot. It was early in the morning, cloudy, light was good, nothing crowding in the background, and the little striped pods just struck me as neat.
Circle Dance: Shinnecock Reservation, L.I., NY: Labour Day Pow Wow, September 2006.
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Shinnecock Tribe
Rte 27-A, Montauk Hwy
Southhampton, NY 111968
631-283-6143
State recognized; (no BIA office liason - seriously ridiculous!)
********************************************************************************************
Shinnecock Indian Nation: An Ancient History and Culture.
Since the beginning, Shinnecock time has been measured in moons and seasons, and the daily lives of our people revolved around the land and the waters surrounding it. Our earliest history was oral, passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and as far back as our collective memory can reach, we are an Algonquin people who have forever lived along the shores of Eastern Long Island.
Scientists say we came here on caribou hunts when the land was covered with ice. But our creation story says we were born here; that we are the human children of the goddess who descended from the sky. It was she, the story goes, who caused the land to form beneath her feet from the back of Great Turtle, deer to spring forth from her fingertips; bear to roar into awakening, wolf to prowl on the first hunt. It was she who filled the sky with birds, made the land to blossom and the ponds and bays to fill with fish and mollusks. And when all was done, the Shinnecock, the People of the Shore, appeared in this lush terrain. We are still here.
As coastal dwellers, we continue to prize the bounty of the sea, the shellfish, the scaly fish, which for thousands of years provided the bulk of our diet. We were whalers, challenging the mighty Atlantic from our dugout canoes long before the arrival of the big ships, long before the whaling industry flourished in the 19th century.
In the 1700's, we became noted among the northeastern coastal tribes for our fine beads made from the Northern quahog clam and whelk shells. The Dutch, who arrived on our shores before the English, turned our beads (wampum) into the money system for the colonies.
The Shinnecock Nation is among the oldest self-governing tribes of Indians in the United States and has been a state-recognized tribe for over 200 years. In 1978, we applied for Federal Recognition, and in 2003, we were placed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' "Ready for Active" list.
Traditionally, decisions concerning the welfare of the tribe were made by consensus of adult male members. Seeking to shortcut the consensus process in order to more easily facilitate the acquisition of Indian lands, the Town of Southampton devised a three member trustee system for the Shinnecock people. This system of tribal government was approved by the New York State legislature in February of 1792. Since April 3, 1792, Shinnecock Indians have gone to the Southampton Town Hall the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April to elect three tribal members to serve a one- year term as Trustees. In April of 2007, the Shinnecock Indian Nation exercised its sovereign right as an ancient Indian Nation and returned to one of its basic Traditions: it bypassed the Southampton Town Hall and for the first time since 1792 held its leadership elections at home, where they will remain.
The Trustee system, however, did not then and does not now circumvent the consensus process, which still remains the governing process of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Major decisions concerning the tribe are voted yea or nay by all eligible adult members, including women, who gained the right to vote in the mid-1990s. Also in that period, the Shinnecock Nation installed a Tribal Council, a 13 member body elected for two years terms. The Council is an advisory body to the Board of Trustees.
Today, we number over 1300 people, more than 600 of whom reside on the reservation adjacent to the Town of Southampton on the East End of Long Island. While our ancestral lands have dwindled over the centuries from a territory stretching at least from what is known today as the Town of Easthampton and westward to the eastern border of the Town of Brookhaven, we still hold on to approximately 1200 acres.
With modest resources, we have managed to build a community to help us better meet the demands of an ever expanding and intrusive world. In addition to the Shinnecock Presbyterian church building and its Manse, our infrastructure includes a tribal community center, a shellfish hatchery, a health and dental center, a family preservation and Indian education center, a museum, and playgrounds for our children. Also on our list of recent achievements is the design and development of an official Shinnecock Indian Nation flag and an official seal.
Our skilled craftspeople and fine artists find employment within the Tribe as well as the surrounding area. The number of tribal members holding advanced degrees in law, business, medicine, social sciences and liberal arts continues to grow, and tribal members hold positions of responsibility in all areas, including teaching, banking and counseling, both within and outside the Shinnecock community.
One of the earliest forms of economic development that the Shinnecock Nation undertook was to lease Reservation acreage to local area farmers for their crops, mainly potatoes and corn. While the project did bring in a small income for the Tribe, the resulting damages from pesticides leaking into the ground water and polluting our drinking water supply were enormous. We had great expectations for our shellfish hatchery (Oyster Project) but brown tide and general pollution forced it to close before it had the chance to develop into the business enterprise it was planned to be. In the summer of 2005, the Tribe began reseeding parts of its waterways with oysters, and celebrated a renewal harvest of Shinnecock chunkoo oysters at the Tribal Thanksgiving Dinner, November 2006.
At the present moment, the Shinnecock annual Powwow is the economic development project of record for the Shinnecock Nation. Revived in 1946 as a benefit for our church, the Powwow has evolved into an event that hosts thousands of visitors. But we are at the mercy of the weather. For the past two years, rainstorms have forced us to drastically revise our budgeting plans. We are now exploring Indian Gaming as a means of attaining the much needed self-sufficiency that will enable us to perform the sacred duties laid out for us by the Ancestors — to protect, manage and maintain the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
By Bevy Deer Jensen
Shinnecock Nation Communications Officer
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For more information on the Shinnecock Nation, please visit: www.shinnecocknation.com/
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photography: a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2006.
"Dissosteira carolina, the Carolina grasshopper, Carolina locust, black-winged grasshopper, road-duster or quaker, is a band-winged species of grasshopper which ranges widely in North America inhabiting weedy grasslands.
"Dissosteira carolina is found in North America in southern Canada from British Columbia to the Atlantic Coast and in the United States from the east Coast as far south as Florida and as far west as Idaho.
"Dissosteira carolina is a minor pest of grasses in rangeland. It is most common in disturbed areas, where its main food is several species of weeds. In favorable habitats the populations may irrupt, dispersing and damaging crops. Disturbed areas reseeded with Bromus inermis may give rise to large populations of D. Carolina, which then fly to fields of autumn wheat where they can cause stand damage. Irruptions occurred in southern Saskatchewan in 1933 and 1934, causing considerable damage to the region's crops.
"Damage has been recorded to alfalfa, and to tobacco in southern Ontario. In 1935, D. carolina was especially destructive to Phaseolus vulgaris or Vicia faba in the vicinity of Flagstaff, Arizona. In Oklahoma, damage has been recorded in maize, sorghum, cotton and potato. To date there have been no detailed studies of the economic importance of D. carolina."
I jumped over the ranch-style fence to get closer to this barn. It was one of those perfect barns that needed to be looked at from every angle! From above, I would have liked to see my zig-zag pattern as I moved around to look at it from various vantage points… Surely some nearby vultures must have thought my erratic movements were signs of the last gasps of life.
Last time I posted a photo of a barn, my good friend, Dr. David Sands, was inspired to write me this poem below. He is both a microbiologist and a poet… who says you have to be one thing in life? Hehe… He’s a great guy, and the one responsible for making me read countless books on genetics… probably only so I can get quirky references to the Hox genes in his poems!
Seeing
if you see what you see
and i too see
and we are but engines of innovation
then doubtful we will construct
the same landscapes
or the same mindscapes
for a barn to me is a static recycled tree
without photosynthesis
and a tree is the result of a packaged genome
and a camera is an eye without wiring
and the hox box came from efficiency
and genomes have lots of space to memorize
where occam’s razor trims the fat like frying bacon
so fried that even some of the meat is lost
and has to be reseeded by infusion
and this confusion at the edge of chaos
both fuels us and carries us
away from a darker bit of certainty
linear poem by Dave Sands
non linear barn by Trey Ratcliff
From the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
Never saw anything like this back in the Yukon. As grasshoppers go, or at least compared to the one's I'm more familiar with, this one is huge! I had to look it up. Apparently, they are voracious eaters and will decimate entire fields of grains or what-have-you to point where the fields will not regenerate on their own but must be reseeded in the spring. Despite their destructive habits, I will say that it is an absolutely beautiful insect.
Left to right: The cathedral, and just to its right its free-standing bell-tower. The large building is Chichester Guildhall. The name is a bit of a misnomer, as the building was constructed as a chancel by the Grey Friars of Chichester, an Order of Franciscans. The Grey Friars received the land, now called Priory Park, in a grant from Richard, Earl of Cornwall, in 1269.
On the extreme right is part of the laughably small castle mound. The castle on the top must have been about as big as a garden shed!. It was temporaliy fenced off after reseeding with wild flowers as it's a favourite slope for children to slide down.
This part of the park also has the town's cricket pitch. I have vague memories of cricket at school and my inability to ever hit the ball. I assumed the white screen was to stop stray balls going too far but it's called a Sight Screen, placed behind the bowler so the batsman can see him throw without any background distractions.
Priory Park acts as the village green for this small, walkable city and takes up about a third of the NE quadrant of the city.
The medieval city walls on Roman embankments surround the park on two sides and a path made in the 18th century runs on top of the embankment. This was a fashionable 'promenade' and largely why the city walls were retained.
Cirl Buntings are one of Britain's most localised breeding species. In the 1930s it bred on farmland in North Wales and much of the south Midlands of England. But in the second half of the twentieth century the population started to collapse. Even at the time of the first Breeding Atlas (1968-72) they occurred widely south of the Thames-Severn. But by the time of the second Breeding Atlas (2007-11) more than 80% of its occupied range was lost leaving an isolated population in South Devon. In 1990 the population was just 150 pairs but targeted conservation work has now seen that rise to more than a thousand pairs. The problem was agricultural changes. Winter cereals meant that stubbles were ploughed and planted in autumn, depriving Cirl Buntings of their main winter feeding habitat. Loss of mixed farming was also an issue as Cirl Buntings need unimproved grassland where they can find large insects like grasshoppers to feed their chicks. Ploughing and reseeding pastures with Rye Grass had also become common practice and such "improved" fields supported far fewer insects.Specialised farming meant that the necessary spring-sown arable, and old pastures were not close enough together to enable these sedentary birds to breed and survive.
Cirl Buntings are still very localised and the best place to see them is South Devon, so yesterday I decided to take a trip to see if I could photograph them. You can see that they are quite similar to Yellowhammers but males have a green breast and stripy head with a black throat. This was taken at Broadsands Bay near Brixham where I bumped into an old friend Mike Langman who has been putting seed out for them here for the past 22 winters.
Old Down is about 12 hectares of ex farm land with a narrow strip of mature beech wood part owned by Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council. The mature woodland is classed as a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC). The Old Down & Beggarwood Wildlife Group manages wildlife aspects of Old Down for the benefit of the community and for wildlife.
Wildflower rich chalk downland is a priority habitat in the Hampshire County Council Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP). In 2009 Old Down had 155 species of trees shrubs, plants and grasses. The Old Down & Beggarwood Wildlife Group want to encourage more species and in increasing numbers.
When taken into public ownership half of the farmland was sown with grasses and half with trees and shrubs. An area around the Tumulus was sown with wildflowers and more are starting to colonise. The wildlife group is working to bring back wildflowers, to increase interest and colour for people, and food, nesting, roosting and hiding places for insects (including butterflies and bees), birds and small mammals. To have a healthy wildlife we need healthy populations of wildflowers. Birdsfoot Trefoil, for example, is food for 50 species of insect.
New wood and shrub areas are being progressively thinned and hazel coppiced on a cycle to create a more open structure that lets in light to the woodland floor. This will, in time, encourage woodland wildflowers to colonise. Coppiced Hazel will have the added benefit of creating thickets for birds as they grow back and the coppicing prolongs the life of the hazel too. Scrub, while valuable for wildlife, is kept in check and managed to discourage rabbits. Rabbits kill young trees by eating the bark and overgrazing of wildflowers prevents plants from producing flowers and nectar for insects, or seed for new plants or food for birds.
Grassland needs to be cut and cleared annually as an alternative to grazing so that wildflowers can compete with grasses. Removing seasonal growth allows new seed to make soil contact and receive light and warmth to germinate. The trials in fenced and unfenced areas are testing different approaches to reseeding and to see which plants do well. Wildflowers are mostly perennials and can take several years to flower. The time to cut and the height is key and has to take account of the species of grasses and plants that grow in an area.
This mature woodland belt on the southern edge of Old Down consists of beech trees which is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America. Recent classification systems of the genus recognize ten to thirteen species in two distinct subgenera, Engleriana and Fagus. The classification of the European beech, Fagus sylvatica is complex, with a variety of different names proposed for different species and subspecies within this region (for example Fagus taurica, Fagus orientalis, and Fagus moesica). Research suggests that beeches in Eurasia differentiated fairly late in evolutionary history, during the Miocene.
The European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is the most commonly cultivated, although there are few important differences between species aside from detail elements such as leaf shape. The leaves of beech trees are entire or sparsely toothed, from 5–15 cm long and 4–10 cm broad. Beeches are monoecious, bearing both male and female flowers on the same plant. The small flowers are unisexual, the female flowers borne in pairs, the male flowers wind-pollinating catkins. They are produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear. The bark is smooth and light grey. The fruit is a small, sharply three–angled nut 10–15 mm long, borne singly or in pairs in soft-spined husks 1.5–2.5 cm long, known as cupules. The husk can have a variety of spine- to scale-like appendages, the character of which is, in addition to leaf shape, one of the primary ways beeches are differentiated. The nuts are edible, though bitter (though not nearly as bitter as acorns) with a high tannin content, and are called beechnuts or beechmast.
Old Down is located beside the A30 on the west side of Basingstoke about 1 mile from Junction 7 of the M3 in an area known as Kempshott which is a ward of Basingstoke on the western edge of the town, to the south of Pack Lane and north of Winchester Road.
The manor of Kempshott belonged to Aldret in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and is recorded as being part of the possessions of Hugh de Port, High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1086.
A. M.W. Stirling, editor of Stephen Terry's The Diaries of Dummer, states that the Prince of Wales rented Kempshot House around 1788 as a hunting lodge (It was demolished at the time of the construction of the M3. Kempshott appears to be a 20c spelling). He brought Mrs Fitzherbert here and it was stated that it was furnished to her taste. The Prince of Wales later had his honeymoon in the house in 1795 with Caroline of Brunswick.
The estate developed with the creation of Homesteads Road and Kempshott Lane to generate a farming community mostly for egg production for Jobs Diary. However, this changed quickly with the London overspill and Kempshott soon became part of Basingstoke.
The housing was largely built in the 1970s and early 1980s in three phases referred to and having the roads named after, Lakes (Between Homesteads Road and Pack Lane), Flowers (East side of Kempshott Lane, south of Homesteads Way), and Birds (West side of Kempshott Lane). In recent years an additional housing development referred to as Gabriel Park was built and is situated at the A30 end of Kempshott Lane adjacent to Old Down.
www.basingstoke.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/4018D95D-3440-4013-A8...
A mature plant will produce a tuft of flowers on long stalks during early to mid-spring, by which time the basal leaves that persisted during the winter may have withered away. Each flower occurs on a naked hairy stalk about 3-4" long; this stalk is often reddish green or reddish brown. The flower may be erect or it may nod on its stalk. Each flower is up to 1" across, consisting of 5-11 petal-like sepals, a green cluster of carpels in its center, and numerous white stamens surrounding the carpels. The sepals are white, pastel pink, or pastel blue; each sepal is oblong-oval in shape. At the base of each flower, there are 3 leafy bracts that are lanceolate, ovate, or oval in shape. These bracts are reddish green or reddish brown, hairy across the outer surface, and shorter than the sepals. The blooming period occurs during early to mid-spring and lasts about 2-3 weeks for a colony of plants; however, individual flowers are short-lived. The carpels turn brown and become beaked achenes that are often pubescent. The root system consists of a tuft of fibrous roots. This plant spreads by reseeding itself.
ODC-Circles
The Dandelions made a come back. I suspect that with the warmer weather they have reseeded.
There is some thing about Cosmos that reminds me of old world charm, perhaps memories of my Mothers garden I suppose, In Greece they reseeded every year, here I be lucky if I get 2-3 plants to reseed, only the whites,
I love Fuchsia, no chocolate Cosmos this year as they sold out fast.
We had bad rain storm Yesterday so they are little beat up.
When I moved to Sebring FL from Palm Beach after two back to back cancer battles, I used to walk downtown, around the historic circle, and back home. Against all advice, I used to pick up little plant samples and bring them home. This is one of them. A vine, a prolific reseeding vine ... it's really beautiful and it's not impossible to keep up with. But I moved it here to Orlando with me, and it thrives.
PS 2019-08-30 Between my awful health and Hurricane Dorian heading straight for us, I wasn't able to check Flickr until today. Oh My Goodness! In Explore! And the highest one I ever had! It stands @ #8 right now, but one of my kind commentors said it came in at #6. WooHoo, thank you Jesus.
Thanks to all of you who viewed, liked and commented on my humble photo. I really, really appreciate it. My third most viewed Flickr photo! To Him be the glory!
Bison at the Elk & Bison Prairie, Land between the Lakes, Kentucky.
The Tennessee and Cumberland rivers flow very close to each other in the northwestern corner of Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky, separated by a narrow and mostly low ridge. The area of land that separates the two bodies of water has been known as "Between the Rivers" since the 1830s or 1840s.
After the Cumberland River was impounded in the 1960s and a canal was constructed between the two manmade lakes, Land Between the Lakes became the largest inland peninsula in the United States.
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Beginning in the 1970s, the 280 ha "Elk & Bison Prairie" enclosure was developed. . . . After the area was regularly burned and reseeded with grasses, elk (from Elk Island National Park of Canada) and American bison were brought to the prairie.
(Wikipedia)
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This sprouted up by our front steps. I don't have the heart to remove it. It's kind of nice to see flowers come back on their own.
July 21, 2022.
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One of the several colors that keeps reseeding and coming back each Spring . Also known as Farewell To Spring and Clarkia
In our garden, these purple Columbines have reseeded in several spots. I'm happy about it, as are the bumblebees!
The berry patch is very large, several acres, and its volume grows each and every year as the bears are its agriculturists, both its farmers and its primary beneficiaries. As they plunder its nutritious sweetness each year they are continually reseeding it with their scat, every animal in proximity to this berry patch benefits, both avian and mammal....
Big Lonely Doug stands in the middle of a clearcut near Port Renfrew. It was left standing, most likely to provide cones for the reseeding of the forest. This is Canada's second largest Douglas Fir. It's estimated to be 1000 years old. It measures 12 meters (39 feet) in circumference. A group recently climbed to the top of Big Lonely Doug in order to directly measure its height by dropping a line from the top of the tree down to its base. Big Lonely Doug was found to be 66 metres (216 feet) in height. Higher than a 20 story building! The area was clearcut in 2012.
The second largest Douglas Fir in Canada
Big Lonely Doug stands in the middle of a clearcut near Port Renfrew. It was left standing, most likely to provide cones for the reseeding of the forest. This is Canada's second largest Douglas Fir. It's estimated to be 1000 years old. It measures 12 meters (39 feet) in circumference. A group recently climbed to the top of Big Lonely Doug in order to directly measure its height by dropping a line from the top of the tree down to its base. Big Lonely Doug was found to be 66 metres (216 feet) in height. Higher than a 20 story building! The area was clearcut in 2012.
Here's a photograph I took on 7 March before any travel restrictions were imposed. It is a male Cirl Bunting hopping around on the ground looking for seeds. I liked the way he is adding distance between his eyes and the ground, a bit like me when reading a newspaper with my age-related long-sightedness.
Cirl Buntings are one of Britain's most localised breeding species. In the 1930s it bred on farmland in North Wales and much of the south Midlands of England. But in the second half of the twentieth century the population started to collapse. Even at the time of the first Breeding Atlas (1968-72) they occurred widely south of the Thames-Severn. But by the time of the second Breeding Atlas (2007-11) more than 80% of its occupied range was lost leaving an isolated population in South Devon. In 1990 the population was just 150 pairs but targeted conservation work has now seen that rise to more than a thousand pairs. The problem was agricultural changes. Winter cereals meant that stubbles were ploughed and planted in autumn, depriving Cirl Buntings of their main winter feeding habitat. Loss of mixed farming was also an issue as Cirl Buntings need unimproved grassland where they can find large insects like grasshoppers to feed their chicks. Ploughing and reseeding pastures with Rye Grass had also become common practice and such "improved" fields supported far fewer insects.Specialised farming meant that the necessary spring-sown arable, and old pastures were not close enough together to enable these sedentary birds to breed and survive. And when you specialise in farming, hedgerows where Cirl Buntings nest become an unnecessary occupier of land that could be used for farming.
It was George Montagu of Montagu's Harrier fame who first recognised Cirl Bunting as a British bird. He collected several among flocks of Yellowhammers and Chaffinches near Kingsbridge in Devon during the winter of 1800. The following summer he found them breeding on the Devon coast in the area which is still their stronghold today. But the species had already been described by Linnaeus in 1766 as Emberiza cirlus from southern Europe. The name Cirl Bunting was coined by Dr John Latham in 1783 from Linnaeus's scientific name, well before its discovery in Britain. Long before Linnaeus the bird had already been named Cirlo by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603 from a Latinised form of a Bolognese dialect word meaning "chirp", supposedly imitative of the bird's call.
New growth by the trail.
Natural reseeding, as far as I know, in an open spot along the trail. As you can see from the blaze, the trail passes just to the left.
Back at Letchworth State Park on Friday. The snow was falling with a gentle breeze; temperature was just shy of 30F. It was beautiful as I headed out on the trail.
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These are alpine forget-me-nots. They are shorter than the more common ones and are reseeding nicely, as they do. Some are pink, some are blue.
Wish that was rain, but the drops are from the hose. It's looking very dry around here.
The name 'pansy' is derived from the French word pensée meaning "thought", and was so named because the flower resembles a human face; in August it nods forward as if deep in thought.
The pansy or pansy violets are a large group of hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers. Pansies are derived from Viola species Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana or less commonly Viola tricolor hortensis. The name "pansy" also appears as part of the common name for other Viola species that are wildflowers in Europe.
Viola tricolor, known as Heartsease, is a common European wild flower, growing as an annual or short-lived perennial. Lady Mary Bennet of England, afterwards Lady Monck, is responsible for introducing the pansy in 1812; she found every variety of Heartsease available and planted them all in her garden. The all-pansy garden reseeded and multiplied, creating new varieties of the flower. In 1813, a well-known florist called Mr. Lee, who worked at Vineyard Nursery, happened to encounter Lady Monck’s collection and anticipated his profit in further cultivating the flower. While Lady Monck’s initial interest in the natural world procured the pansy’s place in socialites’ hearts, it was Mr. Lee’s Romantic views on cultivation that furthered the flower’s popularity.
(from Wikipedia)
Ophelia's oft-quoted line, "There's pansies, that's for thoughts", in Hamlet (Act IV, Scene V) comes from this tradition: if a maiden found a honeyflower and a pansy left for her by an admirer, it would mean "I am thinking of our forbidden love" in symbol rather than in writing.