Photos: Savanna
Nov. 3rd, 2024 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThese pictures are mostly from the savanna.
The white garden stands at the end of the driveway on the south side.
This is the thick, woody stem that held a head of yucca flowers. You can see where a woodpecker has drilled holes to extract whatever was inside it, and indeed, has pecked off the whole upper half of the stalk. I kept hearing them all over the yard today, drumming away in the trees.
Not much is left of the telephone pole garden, just a few green leaves of gladioli. There are some hollyhocks somewhere under there too.
The wagonwheel garden has a new white decorative wheel in it now. The thing keeps rolling around. I need to secure it somehow. The black arc behind it is the rim of the old, genuine wagonwheel.
The hazelnut bush has lost most of its leaves.
Hazelnut catkins appear in late summer or early fall and stay small through the winter. In early spring they grow much longer and thicker as they open up to spread pollen. Yep, those are little green tree penises!
The wildflower garden has gone to seed.
This seedhead belongs to wild senna.
These are purple echinacea seedheads, already picked mostly clean by birds.
Some of my purple echinacea plants have these weird little sprouts on the seedheads.
Northern sea oats seedheads dance and whisper in the wind. You can see a few whole ones, but most have already started breaking down this late in the season. The seedheads form in early to mid-summer and by late summer or fall have turned golden. This is a favorite native grass.
This is one of the oak seedlings toward the northwest side of the savanna. It still has mostly green leaves. It's part of the memorial grove for my mother.
This oak sapling is getting pretty big. We got it at an Earth Day event a while back.
A somewhat closer view shows how red the leaves are turning.
A single leaf with pointy tips shows that this tree belongs to the red oak group.
The Colorado blue spruce seedling is bedraggled from the drought, but still alive.
This is another oak seedling with brown leaves.
A robin hides in the middle of this picture.
This old mulberry tree hangs over the savanna.
Mulberry leaves turn gold in fall.
This oak seedling still has green leaves. The rounded tips mark it as belonging to the white oak group.
The white garden stands at the end of the driveway on the south side.
This is the thick, woody stem that held a head of yucca flowers. You can see where a woodpecker has drilled holes to extract whatever was inside it, and indeed, has pecked off the whole upper half of the stalk. I kept hearing them all over the yard today, drumming away in the trees.
Not much is left of the telephone pole garden, just a few green leaves of gladioli. There are some hollyhocks somewhere under there too.
The wagonwheel garden has a new white decorative wheel in it now. The thing keeps rolling around. I need to secure it somehow. The black arc behind it is the rim of the old, genuine wagonwheel.
The hazelnut bush has lost most of its leaves.
Hazelnut catkins appear in late summer or early fall and stay small through the winter. In early spring they grow much longer and thicker as they open up to spread pollen. Yep, those are little green tree penises!
The wildflower garden has gone to seed.
This seedhead belongs to wild senna.
These are purple echinacea seedheads, already picked mostly clean by birds.
Some of my purple echinacea plants have these weird little sprouts on the seedheads.
Northern sea oats seedheads dance and whisper in the wind. You can see a few whole ones, but most have already started breaking down this late in the season. The seedheads form in early to mid-summer and by late summer or fall have turned golden. This is a favorite native grass.
This is one of the oak seedlings toward the northwest side of the savanna. It still has mostly green leaves. It's part of the memorial grove for my mother.
This oak sapling is getting pretty big. We got it at an Earth Day event a while back.
A somewhat closer view shows how red the leaves are turning.
A single leaf with pointy tips shows that this tree belongs to the red oak group.
The Colorado blue spruce seedling is bedraggled from the drought, but still alive.
This is another oak seedling with brown leaves.
A robin hides in the middle of this picture.
This old mulberry tree hangs over the savanna.
Mulberry leaves turn gold in fall.
This oak seedling still has green leaves. The rounded tips mark it as belonging to the white oak group.
