What a find ! Saw dozens of these ENDANDERED Orchids in once location in the rain yesterday; the blossoms are small; maybe 3/4″ total and the plants are mayber 4-6″ tall:
Posts Tagged ‘plants’
Cypripedium parviflorum v. parviflorum in the valley
Posted in Wildflowers, tagged Arkansas, blossoms, Cypripedium parviflorum v. parviflorum, endangered, lady slipper, nature, orchid, orchids, parthenon, plants, rain on May 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
They’re Back
Posted in Wild Birds, Wildflowers, tagged 4/21, arrived, Boston Mountains, hummingbird, hummingbird male, nature, plants, red bud tree, Ruby Throated Hummingbird on April 23, 2013| 2 Comments »
Its’ 6 PM and finally started to rain. I put out the first feeder yesterday; got one Rudy Throat Hummingbird male in 10 minutes; today I have about 5-10. They are too busy to count !! They are sitting on a young Red Bud tree in the yard:
Happy Springtime again
Posted in Wild Birds, Wildflowers, tagged Arkansas, blooms, boston, home, in, Mountains, nature, plants, spring, the, winter on March 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
It was spring, then winter, now spring again (taken today early); it’s still cold, but the blooms are waitintg to POP:
Picking up bundles of AFS seedlings at Clarksville soon
Posted in Shrubs and Trees, The River, tagged AFS, bluestem, deer, foodplots, indian grass, little buffalo, native grasses, nature, orchard grass, paw paw, persimmon, plants, wheat, wildlife bundles, wildlife food plots, winter, winter wheat on February 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I ordered the seedlings last October. The ground is soft (not frozen) and the time for seedling planting in getting close. I am concentrating on wildlife food plots this year; not beautification. I am picking up lots of persimmon, mulberry, black walnut, and oak saplings along with a dozen wildlife plot bundles. The part of my property that has been used as pasture for about 75+ years will be returned to islands of native grasses (little bluestem, switch grass, and indian grass; planted last 2 years) and the islands will each have groves of wildlife bundles (planting them this spring).
I also planted a good sized patch of Winter Wheat and another of Orchard Grass last October; it is doing great and the big “green-up” will start soon. Each patch is mixed with Ladino Clover also. The deer really seem to like this all winter long and use it to bed down in, during the spring and summer.
I am raising the fencing in my vegetable garden to 7 feet (from 5 feet) this year to try to keep the deer out; we’ll see ?
Sounds crazy to encourage deer and plant a vegetable garden, but the wildlife is more important to me.
And finally a photo of the Little Buffalo at dusk yesterday:
American Robin on ripening wild grapes
Posted in Wild Birds, tagged american robin wild grapes near parthenon arkansas, plants on October 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Life and Wildlife along the Little Buffalo River 