Your Picture of the day.

How Highs the Water Momma ???
And still Raining on this Memorial Day Weekend.

This is not a river! It was dry this time last year and is over the spill way at this time.
It is about another 100 yards long to the right and about 200 feet to the left.

I just saw a Snapping Turtle waving a White Flag and looking for dry ground.

 

And the rain keeps on coming....


Those are pump jacks

 

Thrown At 30' lol

 

I'll bet they'll need new motors!

 

This picture is of the much hated Milk Weed plant. Too prolific at times and no cow will eat the grass around it so it is not just a weed but a very invasive weed.

None the less I let it grow in selected rocky spots. I use a stainless steel tool from Japan to remove these plants.

It is the only plant a MONARCH Butterfly uses to survive and reproduce.

God has his ways and we need to work with what he gave us.

 

Hk User you are now officially a medicinal gardener. Milkweed - Medicinal Herb Info

 

New camp up and one line, remembering those that gave all by keeping them in my mind and trying to live the way we talked about.

 

Many Varieties

This is mine.

Asclepias viridis
Asclepias viridis, (Green Antelopehorn Milkweed)
General Description

This milkweed is common in pastures from Kansas to Texas. Generally avoided by cattle and horses. It can be found along roadsides, ditches, prairies, open areas, and other areas with little vegetative competition. This species tends to be short (12 inches) with multiple stems emerging from the root crown of mature plants. Taller, more erect plants, usually with one or a few stems, can be found in moist prairies. Leaf shape is highly variable. The yellow-white flowers are borne on large erect umbels. The flowers are distinct in that they lack horns.

Form/Growth

Distribution: AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, IN (Endangered), KS, KY, LA, MO, MS, NE, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, WV

Flower: Usually one umbel per stem but large plants may have up to 10 stems and infloresences, 3-5 in (7 ¾ -12 ¾ cm) wide with 10 +/- flowers per umbel. Color is white to yellow-green with a purple tinge. Corolla is green or cream. Hoods are purple to white. Corolla cups upward and around the outside of the hoods. Doesn’t have horns.

Foliage: Stems are ascending. Glabrous but foliage has a course texture. Leaf arrangement is alternate to sub-opposite and attachment is petiolate with short petioles. Will form several pods per stem. One umbel to a stem, occasionally two.

Habitat: Dry areas, prairies, pastures, glades, ditches, disturbed ground, limestone soils.

Height: 9 ¾ – 25 ½ in (25-65 cm).

Leaves: Ovate to lanceolate, 2-4 ¾ in (5-12 cm) long and 3/8- 2 ¼ in (1-5 ½ cm) wide. Glabrous, but occasionally has fine sparse hairs.

Roots: Taproot.

Toxicity: Low.

Reproductive

Blossoming Season: May – August.

Life span: NA

Propagation: By seed.

Pods: Usually erect,2 ½ -5 in (6-13 cm) long and ½ – ¾ in (1-2 cm) wide. Slightly hairy.

Seed Color: Brown.

Environment and Growth Requirements

Maintenance: Low.

Overhead Conditions: Open spaces with lots of sunlight.


Precipitation: 20-60 in (51-153 cm) annually.

Soil Texture: Sandy or rocky soils.

Temperature: Can withstand a minimum temperature of -20 to 0 Fahrenheit (-29 to -18 Celsius).







Work Cited: kswildflower.org, Plants.usda.gov, dnr.state.oh.us, Arborday.org, Eduplace.com, critsite.com

Photos: Monarch Watch Archive

 

Got a lot of little green mason bees this spring. They're loving my salvia.

 

Texas Flood Snake Boots after they were washed some.

I know y'all are as tired of water as I am.

So here's some mud to go with all that water.

I was in the clay mud past my ankles just trying to survey the next move for a Hay Ring.

Had I been in rubber boots, well they'd still be there.

 

Latest batch of bacon. Sweet Habanero.

 

Working cows in Liberty Texas this morning and the Trinity is still rising.

 

New camo pattern for Texas BOV if it keeps raining.

 

She'd been setting on dummy eggs for nearly two months. Yesterday I bought some day old chicks and slipped them under her. She's been talking to them all morning.

 

Awwww

 

All that mothering Instinct now not going to waste

 

had another bird fall put of the nest today.

Wnyone want to guess what it is

 

That's awesome! Ever think of selling them?

William Warren