dendrite

After Lava mentioned it, I found some of that around my chicken run too. The flowers fully open def look like creeping buttercup. I’m not a weed expert, although I’ve been trying to ID many of them since getting chooks.

Glad we don't live in Wyoming.

Low heights to our NE. Where have I seen that before? Could very well end up above normal in that period though. Devil is in the deets.

Anyone an expert on hickory nuts? Diane braved the heat and humidity to Nashville to collect me some and I have some in different sizes. I know shellbark are the largest followed by shagbark and then either mockernut or pignuts, but I’m not sure how large each nut hull is supposed to be...I just know the relative sizes. I’ll post some later, but maybe @tamarack will know? i feel like I either have ovata with some ovalis, or laciniosa with some ovata.

Looks like some early color on the swamp maples.

9 days of 90s later...

Maybe eat a burger or two so you’re not cold at 90°?

We don't have much of a problem around here with areas of overgrown fields with wildflowers and weeds for the bees and beneficial insects, but it must be tough being one of those little buggers in suburbia...anally manicured lawns, pesticides, nothing overgrown, etc. I wish everyone had a little patch of their yard with an area of native wildflowers and/or weeds. It's funny, but the greens I notice my birds eating the least are the zoysia and cold climate grasses. They love clover, dandelion, plantain, and anything related to a crabgrass. I'm trying to grow bocking 4 comfrey for them from root cuttings too, but I see no sign of rooting from them yet. Anyway, RIP this morning to Sophia, our last white leghorn. She was the perfect little forager and must've laid us 500-600 eggs before she stopped in February. We suspect she was internally laying, but she had ups and downs from that point until the past week. She actually had times when she seemed to be her normal energetic self. But the last week she declined rapidly. She spent the weekend in the spare bedroom with no energy to move and hopped into the rainbow nesting box this morning...our first loss since June 2017. She will be very missed, but the flock must go on. RIP Sophia

Yeah...looks like summer. Warm ups and mild downs. I mean, we hit 90s in the days of yore too. All we ask for is tolerable humidity and occasional breaks from the heat.

Nah. I can just be home to enjoy it and take care of overheating chickens.

Hot week on tap overall. Glad I have it off.

We pollen.

I'm not an expert, but yeah. I'd let it all grow for now as we get into deep summer. Keep it on the longer side too. Let those roots grow down deep and keep the sfc moisture up.

MPM with some subtle humble bragging in this thread.

Actually now that i look again it looks like yarrow. I’ll vote yarrow and creeping buttercup.

Yellow flower though...creeping buttercup maybe?

Wild fennel and geranium?

Raining pollen today.

Congrats on your flooding. lol

You guys make my 0.71” look like Yuma.

I'm not sure which one I have. These aren't my photos. I think I have the non-glossy version. I'll look when I get home.

Yeah this is more shrub/small tree like. It's not as bad as knotweed, but it's first to leaf out, last to drop leaves, and produces a ton of berries that drop seed. The berries aren't even good for wildlife...it just gives everything runs. https://www.michigan.gov/invasives/0,5664,7-324-68002_71240_73850-379574--,00.html

I'm so sick of that invasive buckthorn crap. Anyone have tips on how to get rid of it? I cut it all back in the spring before it seeds and in the fall, but that crap resprouts like 4ft after it first leafs out in the spring. I assume keep cutting it back until the roots run out of energy is the only option? That and making sure it doesn't go to seed?

No red thread here, but I’ve noticed those fungal spots showing up again on just the red maple leaves. Weird.