I didn’t see any Virginia creeper that day showing fall color, but we did see this interesting thing.  

 

My SEEK app told me that it is Buffalo Nut.  Here’s what I found on Wikipedia, which is where SEEK got its information:

 

 

I think that’s pretty interesting.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

 

You know my obsession with poison ivy.  I look for it everywhere.  

 

We were in the park for our walk, and I noticed this poison ivy growing up the trunk of a pine tree.  It is showing fall color, and looking kinda pretty.  Don’t be fooled by it though;  it is still icky.

 

I was looking for some Virginia creeper too, to show you the difference in their fall color, but didn’t see any this day.  I will keep looking, because they are so different.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

 

I walked up the front steps just in time to see a bee land on this marigold.  Just in time to see this praying mantis reach out, grab the bee, and eat it.  

 

I was so happy to get this picture, because I wanted you to see the praying mantis up close, with its prey.  WOW!!! 

 

Who needs The Nature Channel?  We have it going on right here on the front porch.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

OK…A little blurry, but you can see the color of the wasabi radish flowers.  And they taste like radish.  

 

I pulled out one root that was green and about the size of a tennis ball.  It hadn’t started to bloom, so it wasn’t woody yet.  So we grated it into our salad.  WOW!!!  It tastes like wasabi.  

 

I think I’ll let the rest of them go to seed, and use the flowers and seed pods.  It is so much easier than scrubbing the root and grating it.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

Do you know what this is?

 

Not broccoli.  It is a wasabi radish getting ready to bloom.

 

They look similar because they are in the Cruciferous family.  They all bloom like this:  first the broccoli-type head, then opening out with 4-petaled flowers.  Arugula flowers are creamy white, mustard and kale flowers are bright yellow, and broccoli flowers are pale yellow.  The blooms on this radish are pinkish-purple.  

 

Once the radishes go to flower and seed, the roots are too tough to eat, but the flowers and seed pods of the radish are edible.    So when they bloom, we just pick off the flowers and put them in our salad.  Mmm, radishy.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

This is just one plant of Poblano peppers.  It’s about 5 feet tall, and probably has 20 peppers on it.  

 

I grew it from a seed!!!

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

Look at these interesting flowers on the Malabar Spinach.  

 

They don’t seem to open up; they just turn into berries, see?

 

 

HAPPY FALL!!!

 

Every year I swear that I will not let the morning glories invade my gardens.  And every year (at some point) I quit weeding them out, and let the morning glories invade.  

 

These are beside the arugula bed, not really bothering anybody, so I let them grow.

 

You know what morning glories do best?  Make seeds and drop them to grow back next year.  Oh, well.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

A few weeks ago, we cleaned out the arugula bed, to replant it for fall.  

 

I already have lots of seeds, so I didn’t cut off the seed pods when we pulled out the plants.  We just pulled them out and put  them on the ground.  When the bed was cleared out, we gathered the old plants into the wheelbarrow, and took them down to the trash pile.

 

Well, this is what came up in the spot where we piled the plants.  I guess a few seeds fell into the cracks.  

 

Even though it’s kinda pretty, next time we will put them directly into the wheelbarrow.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!

 

My friends went to Burt’s Farm last weekend, and took some cute photos.  This one is my favorite.  

 

If you want to go, Burt’s Farm is in Dawsonville, GA.  Go early;  Violet says it’s a neat visit first thing in the morning.

 

 

HAPPY FALL Y’ALL!!!