Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Springtime In The South

 I do know that it is January...
I don't think that the shurbs and buttercups know it is still Winter.
They are blooming away. We have not had a freeze yet. It has only been below 32 degrees 2 times this winter. The yellowbell bushes are also blooming. The buttercups in the 1st picture usually bloom about the end of February. They are thinking it is Spring here in the South. Is anyone else having an early Spring where you live?  Or is it just Alabama?
Till Later....

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Something I Almost Cut Down



I thought this was a weed. I almost cut it down, till it started blooming. Mom told me it was a Lily. I thought It looked like a weed till the blooms started developing. It is now beautiful. Three different stalks with about 5 to 6 blooms each... The problem is... They are growing right up in the middle of a rose brush. After they finish blooming, can I move them somewhere else in the yard? Any help is appreciated. I also took this pictures of the grapes. Birds usually gets these before they get any bigger. We are lucky this year, they are still on the vine growing.. Not big grapes.. but growing.


These big grasshopper things that are black with red stripes down they backs are eating everything in the yard. Nothing will kill them. Spoke to Ortho person at Home Depot, because the ant poison we bought ( to keep little ones from being ate up) doesn't work. He said I needed to write to the EPA and Government because that can not use any chemicals that kill the bugs, slugs, ants, beetles, ect.... anymore. outlawed !!! He said quote" The stuff we manufacture will not kill them, they are immune to it. " End Quote. So.. I thought I am wasting my money on Bug B Gone. I had 2 bags at home. Put them out in the yard 2 weeks ago... Still ants and everything. Soon Headlines of all southern newspapers will read - Bugs take over the South along with Kudzu and Mimosa!

Till later... Outside to try to tame the Mimosa !