Saturday, May 24, 2025

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.

Saturday, April 26, 2025

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.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Community Garden

I was out getting some exercise tonight and came across the Penn Yan Community Garden. At first I was excited and fantasized about partaking in growing plants with my fellow community members. On closer inspection I realized that I have no shared values with these gardeners, as they had sprayed roundup around the containers and fences. I guess that people in this community have not heard of the dangers of glyphosate.

Friday, July 19, 2024

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.

Saturday, July 13, 2024

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