I was looking around the garden and found some more galls. Isn't this an interesting gall? It is on a cedar tree. I do wish I knew more about these things. They are very interesting to me.
Do you remember the galls I told you I saw on the Forsythia?? They are quite different than the above gall. They are very lumpy and coarse looking. While the gall above is bumpy but more smooth in texture. The colors vary great too. As you can see the forsythia is budding but no blooms yet.
Marvin who seems to know lots about nature and is so kind to impart his knowledge told me that the one on the Forsythia is a Phomopsis Gall. It is a type of fungus. He also told me about
this site where you can read about this gall and many other garden maladies. I found here that the creepy aggressive awful grass I wrote about
here is a Wild Bermuda Grass. What this site says about it is terrifying to me. It sounds like it will indeed be a fight to keep it out of my flower beds. Sigh~~
There is some weird fungus growing on the trunk of the huge Autumn Olive that we cut down. I was checking on the log planter to see if the little starts I planted in it appeared to be surviving the winter and spotted this fungus. It is a pretty color and texture. Almost velvety yet at the base it looks jelly-like.
I felt very fortunate to have found the bagworms haning on the cedars. I only found three of them. I wonder if there will be more?? You usually don't just find three. We haven't had any bagworms for some time. I hope it is the last of them. I picked them off and threw them away.
I just couldn't resist showing you this fuzzy wuzzy bud of the Magnolia inour garden. The tree is full of them. I hope they don't all get burned off with this cold.
There are still a few of the seedheads of the Clematis 'Ramona'. Iwonder if a person could winter sow them? Has anyone tried this before?
We are battening down the hatches today. We are under a Winter Storm Watch. We could get as much as 2-6 inches of snow, rain, sleet etc beginning this afternoon. The Weather Men are always making these announcements and often they aren't near as severe as forcast. So we will just have to wait to see what happens this afternoon.
Do you remember the galls I told you I saw on the Forsythia?? They are quite different than the above gall. They are very lumpy and coarse looking. While the gall above is bumpy but more smooth in texture. The colors vary great too. As you can see the forsythia is budding but no blooms yet. Marvin who seems to know lots about nature and is so kind to impart his knowledge told me that the one on the Forsythia is a Phomopsis Gall. It is a type of fungus. He also told me about this site where you can read about this gall and many other garden maladies. I found here that the creepy aggressive awful grass I wrote about here is a Wild Bermuda Grass. What this site says about it is terrifying to me. It sounds like it will indeed be a fight to keep it out of my flower beds. Sigh~~
There is some weird fungus growing on the trunk of the huge Autumn Olive that we cut down. I was checking on the log planter to see if the little starts I planted in it appeared to be surviving the winter and spotted this fungus. It is a pretty color and texture. Almost velvety yet at the base it looks jelly-like.
I felt very fortunate to have found the bagworms haning on the cedars. I only found three of them. I wonder if there will be more?? You usually don't just find three. We haven't had any bagworms for some time. I hope it is the last of them. I picked them off and threw them away.
I just couldn't resist showing you this fuzzy wuzzy bud of the Magnolia inour garden. The tree is full of them. I hope they don't all get burned off with this cold.
