Snowcapped Goldenrod at Twilight

I appreciate the simple things in  life.  Snow capped Goldenrod blowing in the wind.  I like the way the breeze picks up in the second video.

Nettles Anyone?

This is stinging nettle.

Some in my family make nettle tea.  Now is the time of year for a spring tonic.  Click here.

Link To Chive Girl....

http://amesababble.blogspot.com/2014/04/chive-girl.html

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This blog entry way put into Amiable Blogservations.....but has connections to Greenery.

Arachnid life in the Garden

This is a Garden Spider.  She wraps her meals in web prior to ingesting them and she might decide to eat the father of her young after making use of his presence.  She goes by Araneus Diadematus and is common in the North Eastern USA and in Europe.

Jungle in New York State 2013

Time stopped for me in the  Summer of 2013--but the garden weeds did not!

The Little Avocado Comes Back to Life

My little avocado plant dried out a bit last week.  I watered it and documented it's perking up process.

The trash can in the background is an aesthetic insult.  I used it to put  garden waste in.  Shortly after this photo sequence I repotted the  plant and gave her a bigger home for the winter.  Since it is starting to be frosty at night, I have her inside.  The plant in the background is a Lavender.  I have had it since I was in my apartment in 2005.  I decided to take it out of the pot and shake off the old dirt, and replace it with some fresh soil.  While doing that, I found an ant hill in the pot and many little red ants were scurrying around.  The lavender stays in the potting shed for the winter.  The fourth photo shows a little terra cotta pot in the background.  It has hens and chicks (a succulent plant) installed.  My father took that home to keep inside for the winter.

I grew this little avocado from a pit from an avocado fruit early in the spring of 2011.  My grand-daughter gave it a set back.  When it was about 7 inches high she yanked it out of the pot and snapped off the tip of the lead shoot, and pulled it out of the soil.  I tenderly replaced it and hoped it would not die.  The early cutting caused the seedling to shoot up two branches, where the one had been.  This plant is a survivor!

What Happens if a Cat Poops in the Madagascar Dragon Plant ?

This summer I did my daughter and her family a favor and when they went out of town I kittysat. I took care of Honey comb, the orange tiger.  I had a box of litter out for her but she liked the feel and texture of the potting soil in my Madagascar Dragon plant. I thought that it was going to become ill after she urinated and defecated in the houseplant dirt.  The day after it happened the plant looked a little wilty...so I watered it heavily (I had scooped out the kitty poo that I could identify) hoping I could reduce the damage by "flushing" the nitrogen out.

I was very surprised about two weeks later...

The Madagascar Dragon sprouted three new shoots!  When a houseplant, such as this, which has gone years without side branches or new growth just pops out new shoots it is a major event!

The above picture was taken in August.  Below are photos from tonight.  It has grown very well.

The plant on the right hand side, the singleton, I bought in 2004 when I lived in my apartment after my divorce. I brought it home when it was about 10 inches tall!  The two together on the left I bought at the annual church big yard sale, for 10 dollars,  I thought the singleton needed company.  Now they are a happy little Madagascar Dragon family!

I guess this sequence of events could be interpreted very philosophically!  A negative occurrence might actually have an unexpected great outcome!