Okay, here's the hardy orchid.
One of these days I'll even figure out how to put multiple photos in the same post with captions. But for now, this will have to suffice.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
How does your garden grow, Part III
Okay, here's the hardy orchid.
One of these days I'll even figure out how to put multiple photos in the same post with captions. But for now, this will have to suffice.
How does your garden grow, Part II
Oh darn!
I clean forgot that I wanted to post a couple of pictures showing the flowers. The Indian blanket flower is at the top left. The hardy orchid will be shown in Part III.
How does your garden grow
It's our Earthday celebration in Little Rock. I know that the actual day was Tuesday, but since most people worked or were in school, we moved ours to the weekend. After I returned from the events held in the garden of the President Clinton Library, I was pumped up to discover that one of our wildflowers had decided to open. That was the Indian blanket flower.
When I looked around some more, I found hardy orchids as well.
Our garden has plenty of flowers, pansies, Russian sage, corral bells, hyssop, knockout roses and others. But these are special to me since they are native to this area. We transplanted the orchids from a friend's garden for just that reason.
We've been studying what Arkansas was like before Europeans came. It was part of the great prairie which extended from Mexico into Canada and from the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains to somewhere in Ohio. It wasn't all plains with tall blue stem grass. There were different zones from a sort of caliche to wetlands. A naturalist told me that when studied one acre of land that had been left unplowed, he found over 500 species of plants. We have only a few areas of prairie left here in Arkansas. Farther west, the states have left more land since the natural prairie is good for grazing cattle.
We went to Colorado early this month and saw huge tracts of prairie that had been burnt off. This is necessary to keep it prairie and go germinate certain plants that need a fire to burn off protective husks. The fires had been pretty well contained, but it was amazing (to me) seeing four or five miles of burned prairie on my right, then another several miles on the left, then right... well, you get the idea.
When I looked around some more, I found hardy orchids as well.
Our garden has plenty of flowers, pansies, Russian sage, corral bells, hyssop, knockout roses and others. But these are special to me since they are native to this area. We transplanted the orchids from a friend's garden for just that reason.
We've been studying what Arkansas was like before Europeans came. It was part of the great prairie which extended from Mexico into Canada and from the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains to somewhere in Ohio. It wasn't all plains with tall blue stem grass. There were different zones from a sort of caliche to wetlands. A naturalist told me that when studied one acre of land that had been left unplowed, he found over 500 species of plants. We have only a few areas of prairie left here in Arkansas. Farther west, the states have left more land since the natural prairie is good for grazing cattle.
We went to Colorado early this month and saw huge tracts of prairie that had been burnt off. This is necessary to keep it prairie and go germinate certain plants that need a fire to burn off protective husks. The fires had been pretty well contained, but it was amazing (to me) seeing four or five miles of burned prairie on my right, then another several miles on the left, then right... well, you get the idea.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Tagged
I've been tagged. There seem to be some rules for this game.
1 link to the person who tagged you.
2 post the rules on your blog. Done
3 write six random things about yourself.
4 tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5 let each person know by leaving a message at their blog.
6 let your tagger know when your entry is up.
So far, so good. But I have absolutely no idea of how to establish a link. Alas, the "help" area seems to think that Everyone knows about these things and gives no comprehensible instructions about linking. BUT, I'm going to do what I can and hope that someone knowledgeable will take pity on me with regard to links.
Random facts about me:
1 My hair is quite gray and short.
2 My office is a mess which will require power equipment to clear.
3 I have a huge stack of books in my TBR (to be read) pile.
4 I hardly ever buy something because it's new. Usually I wait until the one I have stops working to look for a new one.
5 I like hockey and volleyball as a spectator. But I'm not what you call a fan.
6 The last cd I bought was a recording of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons".
Links: TBA... when I learn how to make them.
1 link to the person who tagged you.
2 post the rules on your blog. Done
3 write six random things about yourself.
4 tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5 let each person know by leaving a message at their blog.
6 let your tagger know when your entry is up.
So far, so good. But I have absolutely no idea of how to establish a link. Alas, the "help" area seems to think that Everyone knows about these things and gives no comprehensible instructions about linking. BUT, I'm going to do what I can and hope that someone knowledgeable will take pity on me with regard to links.
Random facts about me:
1 My hair is quite gray and short.
2 My office is a mess which will require power equipment to clear.
3 I have a huge stack of books in my TBR (to be read) pile.
4 I hardly ever buy something because it's new. Usually I wait until the one I have stops working to look for a new one.
5 I like hockey and volleyball as a spectator. But I'm not what you call a fan.
6 The last cd I bought was a recording of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons".
Links: TBA... when I learn how to make them.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Today started foggy and rainy. But the garden was wonderful. The daffodils had come and gone. In their place were hundreds of jonquils, white and yellow, smelling marvelous. Adding to the perfume were lavender (something we were told could not be grown in Arkansas) and wisteria.
Most of the day was spent in meetings with educational content. There was a rose seminar attached to lunch, then a talk on the wild flowers of Arkansas with a dessert afterwards.
Of course, I caught up on the gossip that I had missed while I was traveling. There were stories about the tornado damage and its effects on my friends. There were actually ten tornados that touched down in the Little Rock area. All were EF1 or 2. That's plenty of wind enough to damage houses. But the main problems were caused by trees and their limbs taking down power lines. Many neighborhoods were without electricity for over 15 hours.
Most of the day was spent in meetings with educational content. There was a rose seminar attached to lunch, then a talk on the wild flowers of Arkansas with a dessert afterwards.
Of course, I caught up on the gossip that I had missed while I was traveling. There were stories about the tornado damage and its effects on my friends. There were actually ten tornados that touched down in the Little Rock area. All were EF1 or 2. That's plenty of wind enough to damage houses. But the main problems were caused by trees and their limbs taking down power lines. Many neighborhoods were without electricity for over 15 hours.
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