Gardening Flowers & Foliage

Okay, I'll bite. What is it?

 

That is interesting

Yeah, me too. What is this?

 

A grape fern.

 

Best of times... worst of times for my Rose of Sharon. Looks nice on one side. The other side is dying off. It'll have to come down in a year or two, if not sooner.

 

That is quite the difference. Each year mine are blooming better - they just like to bloom towards the top where I can't get a decent picture of them - LOL. I haven't even give them extra water this year, and even thru the drought they are doing well. Guess the roots finally got down below the "raised" part of the bed since this place was built on top of a swampy area.

 

I am hesitant to water outdoor areas, as we are on a well.

Glad to hear your RoS' continue to grow.

 

The ficus is probably okay - as you are thinking going thru shock. When we moved from KS to NH had an angel wing begonia that dropped every single leaf over the course of a couple of weeks. Thought it was done for but decided to keep the soil watered. Several weeks later, it started pushing out new leaves. AFAIK, the ex still has it.

If truly a toad, it would be a youngster since the East Coast doesn't have any truly small toads. Although, if you are in the Atlantic south (I've forgotten where you moved to and am too lazy to go look it up - LOL) it could be an Oak Toad (according to my search - never even heard of them).

Gray Tree frogs are cool. When I have tons of pellets out in the yard, when I unwrap them they will be under the wrapping (they can crawl up into some pretty small places. They are very hard to see, change colors (almost white, tan, gray or greenish) according to their surroundings and they do somewhat resemble toads. They live in moist areas, but not necessarily in or around water - although water is where they lay their eggs.

 

The woods that I opened up behind my house are an impenetrable mess of white wood asters and goldenrod right now. Much better than looking at a forest floor covered in leaf litter anyway. The short sapling on the right is a young pawpaw tree. Japanese stiltgrass has started to creep in so I've got to work hard to get rid of it before it smothers everything. I have plans to bring in some native bunch grasses and let them run wild along the edge of the woods. That ought to keep a few undesirables out. I'm going for the backyard micro prairie habitat look.