Maxixe (CUCUMIS ANGURIA) vines.

I was gonna say I thought it looked like a maxixe. (CUCUMIS ANGURIA)

Praying mantis hatch.

I did that once!

So funny!
So many people consider box elder to be a trash tree, and here's you protecting it indoors!
I'm not sure I'd want to plant this very fast-growing tree next to a pond.
Most pond plants want full sun, and your waterlilies won't bloom in shade.
Box elder seedlings look like poison ivy, cool!

Matelea carolinensis yellow form

Matelea carolinensis

Mateleas are so cool. Flowering now.
#nativeplants

foxglove and poppies

Spring bloom. Foxglove and poppies.

Cat eating a turnip.

Hard to choose, but a cat eating a turnip rates.

Seems like every day is opposite day with Trump and crew.
Additional evidence of this? Expected.

88 Lines About 44 Women (Original Version) YouTube video by The Nails - Topic

The original song by the Nails.
youtu.be/jeymW6GTDeY?...

88 Lines About 44 Star Trek Women YouTube video by Cam Habler

I admit it. I've always been a Trekkie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Zv...

I still want my moon rover.
Seems obvious these vehicles need solar panels.

I poach eggs in my ramen noodles.

Trump Shares AI Image of ‘Trump Tower on Moon,’ Sparks Buzz Trump’s viral Moon trump tower image raises a real question: how close are we to building on the Moon? Here’s what science and timelines say

Does this even look like anything?
Maybe he can shoot a couple seasons of 'The Apprentice' while he's doing the survey work. Let's send him up there with a gold coloured shovel.
www.breezyscroll.com/world/the-us...

Trump's tower.

An ultra-wealthy mogul’s blistering questions travelled the world. Then friends made a call and it all vanished into thin air.

? Seems like something that needed to be done.

www.news.com.au/world/middle...

"Plant native shrubs where they can grow to their natural shapes and sizes."
The problem is that the "landscapers" don't consider the eventual mature size, leaving the homeowner struggling to retain an unnatural size.
The wild yaupon are cool; these 'nana' kinda suck.

It can be easy to overdo.
Getting back out there is exciting and good for us, and if we spend more time taking pics and watching the birds and butterflies, and less time looking at the stuff that makes us unhappy, better experience.
Be careful, some of those "weeds" might be desirable.

I think you could give it a head start at most any pond garden supply center.
I recommend wetland iris.

Grancy greybeard (Chionanthus virginicus)

Black locust (robinia pseudoacacia)

White flowers this morning, grancy greybeard & black locust.
#nativeplants

I use a shovel at the base of the plant; it's always been really easy. Kudzu doesn't seem to have roots, except for the original root from which it sprouted from seed.
Wisteria, otoh... You dig, and it's right back, and it can root at every joint.

Believe it or not, kudzu needs sun to grow like that. So when we walk through the kudzu into the forest, we leave the kudzu behind. It doesn't grow under the trees, & Kudzu is fairly easy to kill.
Wisteria is far worse. It kills the forest, and everywhere it touches the soil, it roots down to China.

Atamasco lily.

I was shooting those a couple days ago, forgot to post.

Now, "The Anthropocene".
I'm a big fan of the storm in the first few pages of "Damnation Alley" by Zelazny.
How soon do you reckon, before we start to see that kind of weather?

Wisteria taking over the forest.

I have pictures of that exotic invasive, too. Very bad news.
That stuff is worse than kudzu!

I can't imagine the horse was real pleased either.
No shade trails?

butterfly visits columbine

butterfly nectars at columbine

Butterflies have found the columbine.
#butterflies #nativeplants

Yeah, If you have lots of concrete, limestone outcrops, your basic soil probably isn't gonna be ideal.
Might oughta take a hint.
While elemental sulfur is often used to grow acid lovers, it's pretty much a non-starter due to the fact that it won't be one-and-done.

Up in maine, they grow in the "barrens".
Land too poor to grow anything else, except bracken fern.

Tell me about the soil.
I think they're tolerant of a lot of soil types.
I even have them growing in the sandhills w/o supplemental water. For a plant that occurs naturally in water banks here (middle GA), that is an impressive range.

I like ageratina altissima, I wouldn't be trying to get rid of it, but I'd totally be setting the blueberry bush in the soil where they can send out roots and suckers to colonize the surrounding soil!
Seems like the new sprouts would grow more vigorously than the old.

Hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)

cut-leaf evening primrose (Oenothera laciniata)

Yellow. Hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)& cut-leaf evening primrose (Oenothera laciniata)are starting to flower at my house.
#nativeplants