Bishop’s Herb Ammi Majus

I recently noticed what looked like a Queen Anne's lace in my yard, in my driveway. But this is May in New York Queen Anne's lace aren't out in May so I was wondering what it was. I actually looked at the leaves and they looked ferny kinda like dill so I tasted some. then when my daughter came over, she told me there is

a poisonous weed that looks like Queen Anne's lace. The poisonous weed looks like Queen Anne's lace has red or purple on its stems so I'm confident that what I tasted was not the poisonous weed. It is a little risky to just taste random weed in the yard so I got a little paranoid. Luckily it was not hemlock. Even a small bite of poisonous hemlock can hurt you really badly. But what we did look up was this Ammi majus herb (weed)which is kind of funny because my name is Amy. It is used in herbal medicine. i'm loving towards plants so it's hard for me to kill even the ones that like to pop up in the wrong places.

Forsythia

today I went to help out at church doing some garden work. I was lucky and found some baby forsythia under a forsythia bush and I took them home with me. It was a win-win situation. I brought my tarp and ended up leaving it there and I got three baby forsythias that I planted in a bunch so I would have a bush next year. I also saved some forget me nots.

Botanical Gardens at Cornell

Today, my daughter and I and her daughter visited Ithaca. Natalie attended Cornell years ago. 20 years ago actually. We had a great day and enjoyed looking at all the herbs and plants.

Outlet trail deforestation

The people in charge of the outlet Trail are cutting back the greenery. It will grow back and look nice again but right now it looks terrible.

Fungi and Indian pipes

I love mushrooms. I don't eat that many of them because they interfere with my digestion. I can only eat oyster mushrooms. I'm sad for mushrooms when people go into the forest and gobble them up when they know they're not poisonous. Indian pipes are actually a plant not a mushroom. But it does not have chlorophyll. It's also called the ghost plant.

Fern study

Three generations of a cactus

20 years ago, my son gave me a Christmas cactus for my birthday. Over the years it deteriorated and I took one cutting. It's getting a little old and wilted and I've tried different things like feeding it sugar, fertilizing it repotting it several times to try and get it to perk up, but it doesn't really want to so I took some cuttings from it and when I was very successful with the first cutting, I did a second batch of cuttings.

update Nov 2024