First you pull the limb down, then you take the pictures.
Pictures of Gretchen taking pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 18 March 2011.
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Gretchen and the dogwoods
How to get a closeup picture of an overhead dogwood:
Category Archives: Plants
Wild azaleas blooming in the sunset, March 2011
Rhodendrum canescens, the native southeast U.S. azalea:
Nope, not honeysuckle: that’s a vine; these azaleas grow on a bush.
These ones had not quite opened yet: Continue reading
Collards blooming, 17 March 2011
Collard greens reproducing themselves.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Potato, 17 March 2011
Plain old Irish potato.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Blackberries blooming
Rubus some native species or other in the woods:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
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Dogwoods blooming, 17 March 2011
Cornus florida in the woods:
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
More dogwoods of previous years.
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The Lilies of Spring
These are not your average lily.
They only grow in counties in south Georgia and north Florida
along the state line,
and maybe a few counties in Alabama.
They’re
Treat’s rain lily, Zephyranthes atamasca var. treateiae.
It’s actually an amaryllis.
You may know them as “those lilies you see in the ditch by the road.”
More pictures in the flickr set. Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 17 March 2011.
Also pictures from previous years.
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Yellow jessamine
These flowers opened on the last day of February 2011.
Gelsemium sempervirens is
a high-climbing, woody vine that is known by several names, including Carolina jessamine, poor man’s rope, or yellow jasmin.It smells good. It’s native to the U.S. southeast.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 February 2011.
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red maple blooms
Some might call this spring:
Picture of red maple blooming by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 February 2011.
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Animal miscarriages from new fungus or virus in Roundup-read crops?
Jill Richardson
publishes a letter
from Col. (Ret.) Don M. Huber,
Emeritus Professor, Purdue University,
who is
APS Coordinator, USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS).
It begins:
Dear Secretary Vilsack:What’s an “electron microsope pathogen”? Continue reading
A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings. Based on a review of the data, it is widespread, very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and corn-suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science!