The Bottle Brush trees are in full bloom. Just waiting for the Hummingbirds. They should be here any day now, they love these.
Category / Landscape
Marsupial finds the honey hole!
For the longest time Brandi thought it was the squirrel getting into our bird feeder just outside our lanai. Turns out it is our possum we appropriately named Gimpy, he visits every night with a severe gimp with his rear leg.
Loropetalum, Ferns, Vines ~
Before and after not quite 4 years. Things certainly grow a lot here in Low Country…like year round!
USA, SC, Gadsden
Our newest setup! What do you think? Show us yours.
Crepe Myrtle Forest – Bonsai
About a year and half ago I took the seed pods from our front landscape fuchsia crepe myrtle and stuck them in a brown bag. The following early spring (which is the end of February in Bluffton SC) I put a few of the million seeds I had in little seed pots. Well, last year they grew and I got about Ian 80% success rate and now have about a dozen of them about 10 inches tall. Some made it back into the landscaping and a half dozen made it into this new creation of a Crepe Myrtle Bonsai Forest. During the seedling process I got a lot of moss collected in the containers and that I used in this display as grass. Next year the forest will be ready for a shaping, but it looks great today. It came out pretty good as my 5th bonsai, with today adding 2 others to my collection, all from seed or saplings.
Southern Mornings
Coffee view from porch.
Little Guy Mantis Update
My little buddy found one of my bonsai trees a few weeks ago and has been moving between the many trees effortlessly now. Today’s update shows how much he has grown, now over 1” long.
The right tool for the Job.
I always tell my wife Brandi, “You have to have the right tool for the job”, I think I nailed for this one. P. S. the Honda is 22 years old and in top notch condition , single pull start, used once a month for our lagoon bank.
Micro Mantis
The Smallest Praying Mantis
While trimming my bonsai trees today I came across this bug that I thought was a mosquito, some say the state bird of South Carolina. After further investigation I noticed it was the smallest Praying Mantis I have ever seen! It was not even 3/8”. Watch the video and tell me what you think.
One of the first exhibits
Talmadge House 