The Crocus Are Blooming!
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1M ago
Crocus sp. near the southeast corner of the foundation on 2-21-24. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. February is coming to a close and I always wondered why the shortest month of the year seems to last so long. Tuesday, I was in town and a friend said his Crocus were starting to come up, so I checked the plants in the “other yard” to see what they were doing. As usual, the Crocus there were already blooming up a storm. Crocus sp. next to the northwest corner of the foundation on 2-21-24. They have been coming up in two areas close to the foundation of my grandparent’s old ho ..read more
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Baptisia alba var. macrophylla > B. lactea > Baptisia leucophaea > Taxon Split
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by The Belmont Rooster
2M ago
Baptisia lactea (Wild White Indigo, Western White Indigo, ETC.) on 7-22-21, #817-1. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you all well. We have had some weird weather in January. If we don’t like something, we can usually change it but weather isn’t one of those things (unless we move). Otherwise, all is well here. I finished updating The Belmont Rooster 20 days earlier that last year because it went so smoothly. I didn’t have to make a lot of changes as far as species names and synonyms was concerned. But, there was one snag… I remember it well… It was on December 17 when I came to th ..read more
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1-8-24 SNOW!!!
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by The Belmont Rooster
2M ago
Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. It rained almost all night and up until about noon. I checked the forecast and decided I better go to town because snow was in the forecast. Well, by the time I got to the car it had started snowing. I needed to go to the church because we have a leak in the roof and I thought I better check it. Fortunately, the floor was dry this time. I didn’t check the time when the above photo was taken, and the time on the camera was whacky. It said it was taken at 3:03, but it was more like 1:03. I fixed that issue, even though I thought I had done it bef ..read more
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Frosty Morning
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by The Belmont Rooster
2M ago
Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. Thursday night was very foggy and the temp got down to 28°F. When I went in to make a cup of coffee, I looked out the window and saw the fog had frozen to the trees and other plants.   I looked online and found it could called what is known as rime ice. There is hard rime ice or soft rime ice…   Hard rime ice is formed when wind speeds are high and trees can be covered with it.   It can happen when temps are in the 17-28°F range…   Even the guide wires on the antenna were covered.   Soft rime ice is more likely to ..read more
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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3M ago
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10-24-23 Cactus & Succulent Update Part 3
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by The Belmont Rooster
5M ago
Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I went outside this morning and it is definitely getting colder…  The leaves are almost completely gone from the maple trees now. We always know it will happen sooner or later. Prepared? Not exactly but it doesn’t take long since I have been through it many times. I prefer the plants being outside, and I’m sure they do too, but it is kind of nice to have plants inside over the winter months. I neglect them outside, now I can neglect them inside with them watching. Agave ‘Inkblot’ at 9 1/2″ tall x 30″ wide on 10-24-23, #968-1. So, I ..read more
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10-23-23 Cactus & Succulent Update Part 2: Front Porch
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by The Belmont Rooster
5M ago
Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Eve’s Needle) at 7 1/4″ tall, the offset on the left at 8 1/4″ tall on 10-23-23, #967-2 Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. This is the second part of the 2023 Cactus & Succulent Update. This post is for the plants on the front porch that were photographed on Monday the 23rd until it became too dark to get good photos. As you can see, the leaves of the maple trees are falling… The above photo is of the Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Eve’s Needle) I bought home from Wagler’s Greenhouse in 2019. The main plant is now 7 1/4″ tall and has many ..read more
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2023 Cactus & Succulent Update Part 1
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by The Belmont Rooster
5M ago
Agave (Syn. xMangave) ‘Pineapple Express’ at 10″ tall x 18″ wide on 10-23-23. Hello everyone! I hope tis post finds you well. The temps have been great and we are getting some rain. We have made it through most of October without a dreaded “F”, but this weekend will be very cold. Since it would be raining all week, I decided to bring the plants on the back porch inside on the 23rd before they got wet. As usual, most of them will get measured and photographed. I started with the back porch on Monday the 23rd then moved to the front porch and worked until it was too dark to take photos then fi ..read more
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What A Find: Pseudognaphalium obtusifolia (Sweet Everlasting)
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by The Belmont Rooster
5M ago
Pseudognaphalium obtusifolia (Sweet Everlasting) on 10-6-23, #964-6. Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. I went to the south hayfield on October 6th to have another look at the Erigeron annuus (Annual Fleabane). I think I have been mistaken, even though I was fairly certain before, in identifying the Erigeron in the south hayfield as E. annuus. Now I am 60/40 in favor of E. strigosus (Daisy Fleabane). GEEZ!   Anyway, this post is not about Erigeron…  I had intended to stay in the front part of the south hayfield to avoid the velcro-like seeds of the Desmodium, but one ..read more
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9-24-23: Second Wildflower Walk ?
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by The Belmont Rooster
6M ago
Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you well. The rain in the forecast seems to have disappeared, other than the 3-4/10 of an inch twice earlier in the last week (or the week before). Tuesday night we had a little rain, but the rain gauge only said 1/10″. There was more in the forecast for Wednesday afternoon, but it didn’t happen. So, it is still very dry. Temps have been in the upper 80’s-90 every day which is what was in the forecast. On Sunday, September 24, I decided to take a walk to the south hayfield and the southeast pasture to see what I could of couldn’t find… The front part of ..read more
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