An inquisitive old fart with a camera
A little scrap of a shrub I dug up in the back yard and planted in the front several years ago has grown like crazy. I was thinking of cutting it back until it burst out in white flowers…
…which makes the bees very happy.
This year I found and transplanted another (foreground; previous in the background). We should have quite an entrance way in a few years!
11 June 2016: This afternoon, walking a slightly different route than normal, I spotted a pine tree starting over — lots of trees were lost to fire several years ago. You have to wonder how much of the existing root system feeds this. Or did it sprout from seed in the rotting trunk? I’ll have to look more closely.
5 May 2017: Pine trees don’t regrow from stumps, unlike eucalyptus trees. But you wouldn’t know that from looking at this. Apparently a pine cone sprouted inside the rotting stump. How it fares as the stump continues to rot will be interesting to watch!
3-½ years later, our hopes of seeing the root structure ended. The rotting host stump burned, consuming the roots of the young tree, now four meters tall.
A pine tree grows out of another (from seed). It will be interesting to watch what happens as the stump rots away.
Palo borracho: tree-hugger’s nemesis
I found this on an old camera. Taken in 2010 maybe?
We were remarking on the extraordinary new growth on the pine trees a few days ago, when I spotted this, a pine whose new growth looks like an upside-down office chair.
I’ve been watching a couple days now for another example, but haven’t seen one.
What do you suppose “inspired” it?