The biggest lawn pest we have at our place is ligustrum. All under the big cedar elms in the front yard are little clumps of the stuff, mowed even with the grass. In the wintertime it’s especially noticeable because it’s evergreen. Sometimes I go round with a pair of pliers and pull the […]
Catclaw is also know as sensitive briar because the leaves close up when you touch them. I am not sure that you can tell from the photo that the flowers are little globes about an inch in diameter. They remind me of little Christmas ornaments. When they have the yellow spores at […]
We are already into triple-digit temperatures here. Monday afternoon we had rolling power outages all over town. It is April. At this rate I can’t imagine what the summer will bring. At least they are predicting cooler weather and rain over the weekend. So far the garden is not suffering.
We spent Easter weekend in Chappell Hill with a group of friends at a place called the Old Browning Plantation. We rented the entire place, which was an 1850 cotton plantation house, no doubt built with slave labor. Eight identical rooms, four per floor and all 20 by 20 with a 12 foot-wide central hall […]
I’m still borrowing the wife’s machine while I try to decide what to do about replacing the dead laptop. I’m really tempted by the new Apples, although they seem a little expensive. I’m talking about the ones they have now that allow you to run Windows. Although I wonder why that is so important to […]
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