Memories of past seasons, from universally beloved commentor MomSense:
Good morning!
These are flowers from walks on the trails near my home.
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What’s going on in your gardens (winter prep), this week?
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OzarkHillbilly
OK, I know #2, but I’m having a brain fart. Probably gonna have to cheat
#3 is an unknown to me trillium
#4 is a Pink Ladies Slipper! A wild orchid and favorite of mine.
#5 I feel like I should also know but it doesn’t grow around here. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it
Baud
Pretty. Until the deer flies come.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: lupine?
Pete Mack
@OzarkHillbilly:
#2 is forget-me-not, and it is invasive in the Northeast.
#3 is painted trillium, which is particularly uncommon here.
#5 is lady’s slipper orchid and cucumber root, which are both fairly common in hemlock hardwood mixed forest. There is Canada Mayflower scattered around too, but it blooms very early
Need photos of trout lily and Dutchman’s britches to fill out the reminders of spring, though. Maybe some spring beauty.
Betsy
@OzarkHillbilly: Apple blossom (or crabapple) and lupine.
I see forget-me-nots, too.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Sab
What is #1? Lovely, but it doesn’t look like a wildflower. Is #6 lupine?
OzarkHillbilly
@Betsy: DOH! got my numbers mixed up. Forgot the Apple blossom and stuck Pink Lady’s slipper there instead! Thanx
@raven: That’s it, tho I know it as Mountain Lupine.
OzarkHillbilly
@Pete Mack: Thanx.
OzarkHillbilly
Sooooo… #1? Anybody?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Boss says lily
Sab
Politically we are all kindred spirits here, but these garden shots show how regionally we are different.
This morning it’s ” yeah, I’ve seen those a lot. Glad I live here.”
Other mornings it’s ” that’s awesome. I want to go see those.”
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I thought it was some sort of lily. I think the leaves around it are from surrounding plants, but can’t be sure.
@raven, I would always assume the princess is correct!
Baud
I don’t know how you people can remember plant names. It just doesn’t stick with me.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: @satby: Thanx! Not that I will remember…
NotMax
@raven
Not thurston?
:)
satby
@Baud: If you’re not into gardening much, why would you? You don’t remember the knowledge you don’t use much. Probably why I still don’t know much Spanish ?
satby
@NotMax: Damn, that took me a second. Moar coffee!
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It started early. When I was young, I spent a lot of time in the woods, hiking, fishing, hunting and most especially mushroom hunting. Poking around on the forest floor looking for delectable fungi underneath mayflowers, near Dutchman’s Breeches, around Jack-in-the-Pulpit… I just became curious about what all these plants were and wanted to know all about them.
Like Wake Robin is a common trillium around here that the Osage name translated to “Much Hunger” because while edible, one had to be really hungry to eat it.
Baud
@satby:
I should learn the names of my weeds.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Weeds are just unwanted wildflowers. :-)
Van Buren
@Baud: I’m with you. It’s all I can do to know that a rose bush is a rose bush. My wife knows the names of all 30 or so we have.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I wish I had more nature in my youth.
Immanentize
@Baud: And others wish they had more youth in their nature
MomSense
You guys are good. #1 is a lily and it was near the entrance to the trail that runs from the back of my neighborhood into a farm. I had never seen the Lily there until this summer. Trilliums are some of my favorite flowers.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: My parents greatest gift to me, one I doubled down on and passed down to my sons.
debbie
@satby:
It’s that there’s so much. I’d never even heard of trillium. Until now, I’d have thought it was some sort of mineral.
debbie
@MomSense:
They’re all so beautiful!
Pete Mack
@Sab:
#1 is Tiger lily. Not a common sight at all.
satby
@MomSense: @debbie: That trillium is beautiful. I’ve only seen all white ones before.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: Thank you so very much for the guessing game.
MomSense
@debbie:
It’s probably a good thing I didn’t send AL all the mushroom and ghost pipe (sometimes called Indian pipe) photos. I think they’re cool, but some people find them creepy looking.
Gvg
@Pete Mack: no, it’s a lily but not a tiger lily. Tiger lilies are spotted. Wild ones are orange. It looks like a garden lily, not a wild one. Pink is not a native east coast lily.
MomSense
@satby:
Trilliums are amazing. I have some old photos of yellow lady slippers. I had never seen yellow ones before.
MomSense
@Gvg:
The is Lily was in such a weird spot because it is not at all near any gardens or yards.
debbie
@MomSense:
Heh, I once had dog vomit and stinkhorn growing outside my apartment door and was a bit concerned about who might have put them there.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: Yellow Lady Slippers are more “common” here, common being a relative term as both varieties are rather rare, they being very particular in their habitats.
NotMax
OT but found it cute so crave forgiveness. Related via recent conversation with Mom.
While she was out she said she witnessed a very young child in a stroller perform the following actions:
1) Pull mask down slightly
2) Pick up and insert pacifier in mouth
3) Give two or three good sucks on it
4) Remove pacifier and put it down
5) Pull mask back up into position
.
debbie
@NotMax:
That is so NYC!
JR
@MomSense: I didn’t realize trilliums could boom in fall. We have some grandiflora white trilliums in our backyard.
WereBear
@Van Buren: I love learning rose names. When I had 80+ varieties, I knew all their names.
MomSense
@JR:
I found the trillium near the end of May. The wild blueberries turn deep red in fall which is really pretty, but not much else is happening flower wise.
Sab
@NotMax: OMG. So cute, but can’t kid keep pacifier in under mask? Ohio pediatric nurses treat pacifiers like illicit drugs, so no useful advice available here.
SiubhanDuinne
This morning, I’m feeling quite silly. Um,
I know Number Five’s not Sweet Willium.
I lie in bed, supine,
And I.D. the lupine,
Forget-me-not, lily, and trillium.
satby
@NotMax: That is cute! All the best to your mom too.
Sab
@Baud: I don’t have weeds. I have native perennials
raven
Since I’m watching the Masters I’ll recount the story from three years ago when we got to go to a practice round. I was in the lottery for 20 years and finally hit with 4 tickets for the first day of practice. I sold two (and spent every dime in the gift shops) and told the princess we were going. She said “why would I want to go to a golf tournament”? A friend with us chimed in “because it’s a GARDEN”!!!
MomSense
We have red trillium, too. They smell like wet dog and have the nickname stinking Benjamin. Nicknames intrigue me. Just how bad did Benjamin smell that other stinky things reminded people of him?
Sab
Well our natural gas powered backup generator is due to start installation tomorrow, months early. So today’s project is make basement electrical panel accessible. URK!!!
Also how to disguise disgruntled-cat-pee smell from basement. WORSE URK!!!!
Phylllis
@raven: and spent every dime in the gift shop
Bought a keychain, did you?
Sab
@raven: Wasn’t that Spaniard’s practice putt whole in one amazing? So glad that was captured on tape.
ETA: I had to explain to my non-gardening husband your “it’s a garden” comment about your wife. His response ” what’s a garden?”
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: No New England Asters?
@raven: HA!
Pete Mack
@Pete Mack:
My bad. Not tiger lily, and it it isn’t native. There are only 3 native tall lilies in New England as far as I know.
Sab
@Pete Mack: So we still have no idea what that lily is? It is lovely.
Sab
@raven: LOL. Twenty years ago when I lived in Las Vegas I used to have posters on my bedroom wall of paintings of the Augusta Masters azaleas because I was so homesick for green with flowers.
MazeDancer
@MomSense:
Such pretty photos! Thanks for them.
raven
@Sab: Well, it wasn’t really a putt. It’s a tradition to try to skip a shot on the water on 16 in the practice rounds. There is a big grandstand there and everyone chants “skip, skip, skip” when the golfers approach their ball.
This physics-defying hole-in-one by Jon Rahm might just be the greatest shot in golf history
NotMax
@raven
Have told this story before but what the hey.
Knew a guy who after becoming a more than a once in a blue moon duffer decided he needed real golf shoes. Went into the pro shop at the golf course and the following ensued (paraphrased from memory truncated version ):
“May I help you?”
“Absolutely. I want the ugly shoes.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“I want the ugly shoes.”
“Sir?”
“I figure there has to be one style you’ve become resigned to never being able to get rid of doing nothing but taking up space in the back room. I want those. Size 10.”
The upshot? He walked out with a brand new pair of name brand golf shoes for a pittance.
raven
@Phylllis: Stuff there is expensive but not near the rip-off as $50 t-shirts at rock concerts. We spent about $500 but got a bunch of nice shirts, hats and brick-a-brack. They have a post office next door to the big gift shop and folks just go in there and mail stuff home. And those pimento sammies for a buck!!
raven
@NotMax: sweet! Did he get a bowl of soup with the hat??
Phylllis
@raven: I kid, but only a little. Can’t say their stuff is any more or less expensive than at the ballpark. Didn’t know about the PO. Will add that to the strategery if we ever get lucky again.
Sab
@raven: I was, nevertheless, amazed. Nobody would ever try that in a tournament, but it was still fun to watch a goofing around shot work so well.
raven
@Sab: Oh no doubt but if they start putting water hazards ON the green the game will really change!
Anne Laurie
Possibly a squirrel dug up the rhizome, carried it to the new spot, and decided it wasn’t tasty enough to eat after all?
The leaves around it are absolutely *not* lily leaves, though — I’d guess briar rose rugosa (& be appropriately cautious!)
raven
@Phylllis:
Patrons who had tickets for the Masters Tournament and Augusta National Women’s Amateur will have exclusive online shopping access for Masters merchandise in early November.
According to an email sent to patrons, special access to signature items, including expertly crafted apparel, unique collectibles and one-of-a-kind gifts will be available on the online Masters Patron Shop. Patrons will have the opportunity to place two orders during the shopping experience.
Patrons will receive additional emails in coming weeks on when they will be able to access the online store.
This is the first time in Masters Tournament history that merchandise is being sold online after the tournament was postponed and later announced no patrons will be allowed.
Patrons who attend the tournament have access to a wide variety of souvenirs from stands located on the grounds, including a main merchandise building near the main concessions area. A new golf shop was revealed during the 2018 Masters Tournament.
Average prices for souvenirs at Augusta National are:
– Baseball Caps – $20 and up
– Bag towels – $18 and up
– T-shirts – $29.50 and up
– Polo shirts – $75 and up (Bobby Jones brand most expensive)
– Balls – $44 for dozen, $11 for sleeve of 3
– Umbrella – $45
debbie
@raven:
Wow! How’d he line that one up!?!
raven
@debbie: From seeing them do it live I think they just “whale” away!
debbie
@raven:
I was thinking he was lucky just to get on the green, but then that spin on the ball was just amazing!
Sab
@Anne Laurie: I used to have a big bunch of red tulips that I did not plant, and that the neighbor across the street did plant that never came up for her.
My husband has a very good relationship with our neighborhood squirrels. It used to be better, but I made him tone it down when they started grabbing our ankles when we left the house.
raven
@debbie: Watch the quadruple skip. This gives a better idea of what it’s like in a normal year.
Anne Laurie
P.S. In my defense, while I love ‘true’ lilies, the ferkakta lily-leaf beatles make it impossible to grow them around here.
We have one solitary pot of Casa Blancas, nutured for the past 20 years or so, which get to bloom about every third year before being eaten to the bare stalk. If I were a ‘proper’ gardener, I’d put them out of their misery, but I admire their persistence too much to do that!
raven
A Symphony on No. 16
debbie
@raven:
Synchronized golf!
Sab
We will never know what #1 lily is? It is so pretty.
Catherine D.
@Sab: Backup generators are wonderful! Mine was installed in April. We have a high wind advisory today, and I know the heat will stay on and the sump pump will run.
JR
@MomSense: Witch hazel is budding out now, that’s about it.
There go two miscreants
@debbie: some kind of mineral
Me too! In fact, there was an episode of the original Star Trek where Spock is incognito as a “trader in kevas and trillium.” That’s what popped into my head when I saw the name!
debbie
@There go two miscreants:
That must be where I got it from too. Amazing what the brain clings to.
Miss Bianca
@MomSense:
All y’all posting photos from Maine are making me miss it, terribly. It’s been way too long. And God knows when I will get back there
ETA: For the record, I love Indian pipes. : )
Aleta
? ? Oh yeah, these photos. My mother and my Mainer aunt were traditionalists about their walks of awe into the spring woods to point out the emerging wildflowers by name. Beautiful photos, thanks Momsense. I appreciate the timing of showing these now. Thanks AL.
The Lodger
@Sab: Another candidate for a rotating tagline! (Or a t-shirt. )