Purchased this plant as a 2-gallon specimen perhaps 15? years ago. Was not cheap...Told they are very slow growers, therefore the price.
Not native in my area, but wanted one. Has grown from 1 1/2 foot shrub to 5 feet plus today... despite droughts, floods, my neglect since its first year in the ground, and assaults by a husband who never learned the damage a weedeater can do to the trucks of trees.
Now covered with blossoms again this year... and being visited by countless unidentified butterflies and bees. Oh that my patience and photography skills were better!
I am not posting this as a plant observation... obviously "cultivated plant", but the advantage of having this magnet in my backyard has provided me with several iNat insect observations.
And by the way... I think the sweet fragrance is nauseatingly.
sang for a bit, while perched on this shrub on the ridgetop
Old cleaned out nest box from last year's house wren family on our porch.
During lunch I went to get my oil changed, and I walked over to this park. It was a former golf course, I believe, and now it's pretty cool -- there are some nice habitats for wildlife.
Deleting old photo files. Could not delete this one without an iNat observation.
Deer are still plentiful in the area today. A parade passes daily between my house and the stock tank.
The area occupied by this species in this area has obviously increased in the last three years.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/1410118
Purchased this plant as a 2-gallon specimen perhaps 15? years ago. Was not cheap...Told they are very slow growers, therefore the price.
Not native in my area, but wanted one. Has grown from 1 1/2 foot shrub to 5 feet plus today... despite droughts, floods, my neglect since its first year in the ground, and assaults by a husband who never learned the damage a weedeater can do to the trucks of trees.
Now covered with blossoms again this year... and being visited by countless unidentified butterflies and bees. Oh that my patience and photography skills were better!
I am not posting this as a plant observation... obviously "cultivated plant", but the advantage of having this magnet in my backyard has provided me with several iNat insect observations.
And by the way... I think the sweet fragrance is nauseatingly.
Purchased this plant as a 2-gallon specimen perhaps 15? years ago. Was not cheap...Told they are very slow growers, therefore the price.
Not native in my area, but wanted one. Has grown from 1 1/2 foot shrub to 5 feet plus today... despite droughts, floods, my neglect since its first year in the ground, and assaults by a husband who never learned the damage a weedeater can do to the trucks of trees.
Now covered with blossoms again this year... and being visited by countless unidentified butterflies and bees. Oh that my patience and photography skills were better!
I am not posting this as a plant observation... obviously "cultivated plant", but the advantage of having this magnet in my backyard has provided me with several iNat insect observations.
And by the way... I think the sweet fragrance is nauseatingly.
I see this solitary white one and another black one periodically in this hay field as I drive by. They are really doing a number on that hayfield.
Attracted to incandescent light National Moth Week 2017
Hot! dry!
1/4" graph paper