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re: What’s your favorite flower, shrub, and tree (on your property)?
Posted on 5/21/20 at 12:19 pm to AlxTgr
Posted on 5/21/20 at 12:19 pm to AlxTgr
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Chinese tallow.
We recently inherited one with our new house.
After I shaped it up and my wife pointed out that the leaves look like Aspens it’s not half bad!
I found out that a common name for them is “Florida Aspen.”
Posted on 5/21/20 at 12:43 pm to bayoubengals88
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I found out that a common name for them is “Florida Aspen.”
kinda like a sheepshead is "bay snapper"
Posted on 5/21/20 at 1:52 pm to LSUtigerME
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And not one damn picture was posted...
Favorite tree?
This big bad boy in my back yard.
HUGE old southern live oak, over 5 feet dbh (diameter at breast height). Can't really see in this picture, but the canopy extends a good 75 feet into the property behind me, with limbs extending down to within a few feet of the grass.
That tree is a major reason why we purchased our lot in Old Metairie 21 years ago (also because it's on a little dead end street with no traffic). Tree when slab was poured in fall 1999:
Favorite flower? While not exactly flowers, I most love the caladiums we have in our front and side gardens. mostly white ones; a few pink ones. No maintenance; they come back every year, and they remind me of my paw-paw's garden at he and my grandma's old house in Biloxi... No pics, but I also like the red and white amaryllis we have in our front garden. I dug them up and transplanted them from my late neighbor's former house right before it was demolished for a new one. It's neat that, in a way, a part of Mr. Zack lives on next door to his old lot...
Favorite shrub? Probably these two plumbago bushes at the front entrance, because they are so pretty in the spring and summer and they attract bees and the occasional hummingbird:
This post was edited on 5/21/20 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 5/21/20 at 10:58 pm to LSUtigerME
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And not one damn picture was posted...
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Vitex
Still a baby. Pruning into a tree instead of a bush
Posted on 5/22/20 at 2:52 am to bayoubengals88
Partial to the 'Jack in the pulpits'.
Have them all over the wooded portions. Along with all manner of wild flowers as I've been carefully weeding out the less desirable's for a couple decades.
Have them all over the wooded portions. Along with all manner of wild flowers as I've been carefully weeding out the less desirable's for a couple decades.
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