Big Blue has done moved up-town
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree?)"
Contrary to its name, the plant is not really a rose at all; instead, it is a member of the Malvaceae or mallow family. Nor is it native to Syria, as is suggested in its species name Hibiscus syriacus. This plant's origins hail from India and China.
Rose of Sharon bears many blooms,
and its attractive flowers are its main selling point. Like other types
of hibiscus, its flowers bear a striking stamen. Another feature giving
the shrub value is its relatively late period of blooming (in the
northeastern United States, it blooms in August). Rose of Sharon is thus
able to offer white, red, lavender, or light blue blooms when many
flowering shrubs have long since ceased blooming. Late summer flowering
shrubs can help gardeners manage the sequence of bloom in their
landscapes.
The Large Leafed Saplings in The Foreground are the forest's ever continuing efforts at regrowing the original American Chestnut that disappeared from the forests when I was a pre-schooler
"More than a century ago, nearly four billion American chestnut trees
were growing in the eastern U.S. They were among the largest, tallest,
and fastest-growing trees. The wood was rot-resistant, straight-grained,
and suitable for furniture, fencing, and building. The nuts fed
billions of wildlife, people and their livestock. It was almost a
perfect tree, that is, until a blight fungus killed it more than a
century ago. The chestnut blight has been called the greatest ecological
disaster to strike the world’s forests in all of history."
Rose of Sharon
Hardy to USDA zones 5 to 8, rose of Sharon is an
easy-to-grow, undemanding plant, happy in full sun to part shade. It
prefers moist, well-drained soil but is tolerant of many growing
conditions, including periods of drought and exposure to pollution,
which makes it excellent for urban gardens.
Brian Blakely and Himself -
Brian had accidentally washed his hunting shirt with some red towels or such and turned the tan to a pinky colour - and of course I loved the 'Pink' camouflage statement about testosterone hunter types and wore it every hunting season since
Name this flowering shrub like tree for me please
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| But this blossom and adjoining buds are being hacked by Japanese Beetles |
Tiny Mushrooms
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| little out of focus here but you can still see the five cent coin to give a perspective on the size of these little mushrooms |