leaf drop
- The_Celtic_Bard
- Posts: 220
- Joined: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:46 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Milwaukee
- Innocent Bystander
- Posts: 6816
- Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:51 pm
- antispam: No
- Location: Directly above the centre of the Earth (UK)
It's a snazzy lamp-post, all right, all right. There's a lot to look at in that picture, to be sure.cowtime wrote: Everyone else is looking at the leaves- I'm lookin' at that Craftsman/Mission Lamp post!
Ginkgo Biloba, isn't it? AKA Maidenhair Fern? Somebody has one around our way, but the fallen leaves didn't look much different from the rest of the mulch on the ground.
Wizard needs whiskey, badly!
- SteveShaw
- Posts: 10049
- Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:24 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Beautiful, beautiful north Cornwall. The Doom Bar is on me.
- Contact:
Gingko biloba is the Maidenhair TREE. The Maidenhair FERN is Adiantum capillus-veneris.
*sniff*
*sniff*
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
- Innocent Bystander
- Posts: 6816
- Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:51 pm
- antispam: No
- Location: Directly above the centre of the Earth (UK)
- emmline
- Posts: 11859
- Joined: Mon Nov 03, 2003 10:33 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Annapolis, MD
- Contact:
Yes, not being properly anchored the first time it was installed, it fell over in the high winds of a storm last year. Luckily, the wiring was tough enough to hold it at a 45° angle so it didn't hit the ground. I mixed 4 tubes of WeldBond to re-anchor the baseplate, found some huge washers for the bolts, and now I'm just hoping.cowtime wrote: Everyone else is looking at the leaves- I'm lookin' at that Craftsman/Mission Lamp post!
- CountryKitty
- Posts: 240
- Joined: Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:04 pm
- Please enter the next number in sequence: 1
- Location: Western Kentucky
- SteveShaw
- Posts: 10049
- Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:24 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Beautiful, beautiful north Cornwall. The Doom Bar is on me.
- Contact:
You can smirk, but many a true word is spoken in jest, my man. At university many moons ago I studied palaeobotany, and one of the plants I focused on was Gingko jurassica which I found in Jurassic deposits (around 200 million years old) on the Yorkshire coast. The fossils showed that Gingko has changed very little in all that time. Our tutor (the most eminent man in his field at the time!) reckoned that there was a good chance that G. jurassica and G. biloba were so closely related that they may even have been able to hybridise had they existed contemporaneously. Ceolacanth, eat your heart out!Cranberry wrote:Well, not all of us are geologists like you, Steve.SteveShaw wrote:Gingko biloba is the Maidenhair TREE. The Maidenhair FERN is Adiantum capillus-veneris.
*sniff*
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Ooh, those leaves are pretty. We don't have a huge fall display here in Santa Barbara. Instead we have purple flowers everywhere in June, like purple snow. You can thank the Jacaranda trees for that.
~ Diane
Flutes: Tipple D and E flutes and a Casey Burns Boxwood Rudall D flute
Whistles: Jerry Freeman Tweaked D Blackbird
Flutes: Tipple D and E flutes and a Casey Burns Boxwood Rudall D flute
Whistles: Jerry Freeman Tweaked D Blackbird
Here's my chance to ask a question that has been plaguing me for years . . . do you find that jacaranda blooms smell just horrible -- like cat pee -- after they've dropped?sbfluter wrote: You can thank the Jacaranda trees for that.
Several homes near here have more than one of them. The blooms cover everything like purple snow, then proceed to stink abysmally. I mean, they reek. You can smell it half a block away. At least, I can.
I've never been able to figure out if it's the rotting blooms, or if neighborhood cats are drawn to the area, spraying like crazy.
Cotelette d'Agneau
- SteveShaw
- Posts: 10049
- Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2003 4:24 am
- antispam: No
- Location: Beautiful, beautiful north Cornwall. The Doom Bar is on me.
- Contact:
Huh. You should be so lucky! Any Jacaranda planted in Bude would end up ten miles inland in no time. They were lovely in Cyprus though. I also thought I had a lovely bougainvillea in my porch, 'til I saw them going beserk in the streets there:Lambchop wrote:Here's my chance to ask a question that has been plaguing me for years . . . do you find that jacaranda blooms smell just horrible -- like cat pee -- after they've dropped?sbfluter wrote: You can thank the Jacaranda trees for that.
Several homes near here have more than one of them. The blooms cover everything like purple snow, then proceed to stink abysmally. I mean, they reek. You can smell it half a block away. At least, I can.
I've never been able to figure out if it's the rotting blooms, or if neighborhood cats are drawn to the area, spraying like crazy.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!