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Some things I found interesting in my yard today
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glendann
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: Some things I found interesting in my yard today |
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I was looking around today seeing how much of my flowers are still trying to hang on.
I found marigolds still blooming but heat and rain has got to them but the butterflies are still all over them.
This Lily was a surprise sticking out from high grass and other plants .
A dwarf canna is still blooming.
Black Pearl Peppers
This boy has really grown and is a fatty.
My Mandavilla are finally blooming
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:30 am Post subject: |
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Love your butterfly photographs Glenda - not so sure about that spider though. It looks enormous!!  Your lily is so unusual compared to mine - none of my ones have only three petals like yours. 
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glendann
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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Eileen that spider is huge but he doesn't bother me he eats so many bugs
he has really grown since I posted him the first timemuch much fatter.
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What are your temperatures nowadays Glenda? It looks really warm there.
I often wonder why people are so afraid of spiders. I would imagine it is because of the legs but they really are marvellous when you take a close look at them.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Good looking flowers Glenda. My Canna's are still blooming too and since that is where my writing spider has taken up residence this month, I can't dead head any of them yet.
The spider isn't getting fat from eating, since she has no teeth she doesn't eat but sucks blood instead. She is a Writing spider aka Orb Weaver...also known as Charlotte in the childrens book Charlotte's Web...and is getting ready to birth the next generation. She will soon build egg sacks and deposit the eggs in them, then she watches over them until the first frost kills her.
Next spring the sacks will open and thousands of baby spiders will float away on the breeze.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject: lily is sweet |
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glendann
wow how nice you grow in TX........
The lily, is it daylily ? gorgous.. Do you collect the bulbs on that one? ONe?
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Very nice walk about the yard with you, thank you - my family calls all big, fat spiders "gumdrop spiders" because they get about the size of a gumdrop and hang around in the bushes. Nice pics, and it looks like you have some peppers too? My peppers have yet to put out anything resembling...well....peppers....
Thanks for sharing 
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: peppers |
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I have one huge pepper.
Had one huge cuke..Now zero. 
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Toni...is that what we call a Garden spider? I'm terrified of spiders with the exception of granddaddy long legs and garden spiders. Silly childhood phobia when I ran into a huge spider web that was bigger than me.
Frank....it's hot and humid here is the Southeast part of the states. It's been mid to high 90's but feels like 105 because of the humidity. I took my camera out in the yard to photograph the dragonflies and damsel flies but my len kept steaming up.
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glendann
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:09 am Post subject: |
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Frank its near 100 degrees today and that hot as blazes here.I'm not afraid
of these but black widows and Brown Recluse because their bite is so bad.
Thanks toni for the info on Charlotte.
I have three more hanging on the Candle
house.That means bunches of babies floating around.
I have about 20 cukes from garden in 2 days .I guess so much rain .I have 3 plants and golly it has produced.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: GLENDANN |
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Sure you got 20 cukes , I got one.
DO you have tomatoes?
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glendann
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Yes rotting on the ground>I can't even give them away.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:52 am Post subject: Thats awful......... |
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We are dying to get a crop of cukes,, I make relish each year, and it is almost all gone.. DO you make relish or sweet pickles?
Guess you dont get snow in the winter and have to can?
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glendann
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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I don't do anything with them except give them away.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject: suprise lily in the grass |
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what is the name of the suprise lily in the grass?
Looks like mine yesteray.
Glendann..............?
Also do you have seeds available for the black pearl peppers? Are they hot or not?
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