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lol. Cool! I was going to say that was an Eggplant but its way too tall and the blooms look different. What is that big plant?
They are rows of broad beans (fava beans). Planted the seeds in Feb, and they are now beginning to flower. The grass cuttings are there to suppress weeds and to keep moisture in the soil, though the thistles always seem to find a way through, even when dug up!
The other 2 plants in those pics are Portuguese cabbage and globe artichoke (which is basically a thistle on steroids). Carrots and fennel (both related to hemlock) are emerging as well.
About only 15% of this area is fully leafed out now. Rest is blooming/budding/little leaves.
May 2015 so far:
Avg Max: 56°F(13C)
Avg Low: 45°F (7C)
May 10, 2016:
You can see the background, not fully leafed out. Will be a deep full green soon. Then they start the color changes in 4-5 months. lol
You'll notice straight ahead that will all be deep, lush green soon. Not yet. Those are all trees straight ahead.
Good view at the general scope of things. You got Pink(or white) blooms here and there, only a couple Maples fully leafed, the rest just mini leaves/blooming or budding.
Will be fun to compare to this in a couple weeks.
Someones backyard. Cool mini waterfall with a brook running below those steps.
Remember the Thornless Honey Locust Trees from 4-23-16? Finally.
I have the opposite view, heathland is far more attractive in summer when it's all brown and dusty. I think we had this discussion before, and pine barrens are your closest biome to our heathland.
Yeah, the architecture will always be a bit different in each area which makes it kinda unique to the area...
Makes sense about seeing a majority of homes or styles from a certain era = a housing boom.
We had one in the U.S in the 1980s. But problem with that era is Contractors cut corners to make the best profit using cheap material or just building plain boxes. Even to this day you don't see many cool style homes but that's because not many want to spend the money.
A lot of neighborhoods have homes from 1950s so that was another boom. Pick a plot, cut trees down, build the neighborhoods.
in my findings homes around Southern NY and CT are mostly from 1950s, 1980s or 2000s. Non recession decades
Interesting. Here it's c. 1900 in the core areas of the city, 1920s and the decade after WWII in the other parts of the city, 1950s in the innermost suburbs and then everything else is around the 2000s.
Beautiful photos. I skipped the San Juan Island when I visited Washington; thought I had seen enough coast. I expected it would be all thick conifer forest. Also looks a bit drier than I thought it would, it gets a bit of a rainshadow from the Olympics, right? But it's only May, heat drying things out?
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