A Walk Around the Farm

Published Thursday, June 28, 2007 by Chris | E-mail this post

I went looking for a yellow mushroom today that I saw last week. I wanted to take a picture when I saw it, but as always I was in a hurry to be some where. Today it was gone. I looked everywhere for another one. My travels across the farm, down through the woods, a walk by the creek, behind the barn, and everywhere else produced no yellow mushroom, but I did stumble across some other treasures.

This first plant is what some people call the butterfly weed, but we’ll call it the butterfly flower! Scientifically it is known as Asclepias tuberosa. This one was blooming along the front fence line.

I don’t know what some of these mushrooms and lichens are called, but they are fun. I think this first one kind of looks like a Reese’s peanut butter cup.

The passion flowers (Passiflora sp.) continue to bloom and spread all over the ditches.

I have asked the dog to please stop finding all of the poor turtles and bringing them to me. If we are moving along, I tell him to drop it. I put it in the woods and we keep walking. If we are working in the field, it doesn’t matter how far away I put the turtle, when I am not looking, Fisch sniffs his way until he has found it. The next time I look up from harvesting, he’s brought it back to his “lay down” spot, wherever that happens to be for the moment.

The bulbs are trying to dry out, but the rain continues to trigger all of the Crinums to bloom. At the top of this posting is a picture of the water dropping off the petals of one of our Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet.' Here are some more shots of C. ‘Ellen Bosanquet.’ This was one of the crinums we sold on the website this year, and I hope everybody’s are doing well.

And last is another picture of our Hymenocallis 'Tropical Giant' that continue to bloom.

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