Nature
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 You have to wonder how evolution lead to the Sotol being almost two entirely different kinds of plants -- a low ground shrub-like feeder and then a 12 ft high 'bloom'. I mean, I guess it has to do with the need to preserve the seeds... but other plants have the same need. It's just pretty unusual.
Also-- huge Carl Sagan fan here. Probably my most admired person I met in person.
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Yuccas do the same with a high stalk and their flowers up where the polinators can get to it. The birds went up and down the bloom gathering seeds in the late summer. They lasted for weeks. The one and only time they bloomed.
I got a book by Neil DeGrasse Tyson signed when I saw him in Austin years ago.
Speaking of blooms....a couple of my bluebonnets still have blooms, while the others have turned to seed.
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Found a picture of the blooms on the sotols. Go Spurs Go!!!
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 I loved Neil on Colbert! So smart and so funny. Did you see him on the final night?
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I don't have pictures yet, but nature was a major beyatch here last night. I heard wind reports of 98 and 113 mph. Our whole neighborhood is almost tree-less (ok. Ii exaggerate a little sometimes but not much this time). Me, my wife and the chainsaw have been outside since 8:30 this morning and we're nowhere near done.
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Today's photo is of a grand-flowered horned poppy plant that was the only one to survive a very hot spring one year. The grand-flowered horned poppy is a vibrant red poppy that loves full sun and well-drained, fertile soil. It is virtually pest and disease-free, as well as deer-resistant. Do note, their roots are toxic if ingested.
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Here's a couple of my sunflowers that have bloomed in the garden. First one is a Mammoth. The second one sprouted on its own and came back from last year in a raised bed and has a colored stalk, beet red.
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Here's a couple of Zinnias. These make excellent cut flowers for an arrangement. Do you grow anything special because you get great joy from them?
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Here's some blossoms for your Saturday! Go Spurs GO! It's do or die time.
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That two tone flower is really cool! Go Spurs!
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A baby praying mantis that was on the outside of my second story bedroom window this morning (taken without my glasses on)!! He was no bigger than my thumb nail.
