(really this was before the real winter -- non stop rain began)
about 3 days earlier
Winter in Oregon
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alice44
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Winter in Oregon
December 7
(really this was before the real winter -- non stop rain began)
about 3 days earlier
(really this was before the real winter -- non stop rain began)
about 3 days earlier
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In the next few days I will try to post some more images -- our plants are confused we had a warm fall -- virtually no frosts and then 5 days of freezing temperatures. Like Helen in BC all my water bowls were frozen solid and now we are back to warm rain.
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From my Christmas day birding (and photographing)
Finley wildlife refuge (for canada geese)
I think this was the first time I have seen Tundra Swans swimming here -- usually we see them in the fields.
(I think the hill to the left here, is the quarry hill above.)
Finley wildlife refuge (for canada geese)
I think this was the first time I have seen Tundra Swans swimming here -- usually we see them in the fields.
(I think the hill to the left here, is the quarry hill above.)
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Winter...
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Before I have even gotten myself together to post real winter image I have seen signs of spring. And although the wind is rather chill today it feels like Spring -- I know winter will be back but...
January 18
January 18
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Oh!!
Your LIly of the Valley is flowering!!
Your LIly of the Valley is flowering!!
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No it is a shrub -- no idea what. When my parents bought it (I am in their former house) it was smaller than the daphne, now it is 1/4 the size of the daphne and this is about as showy as it gets and no scent.
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Of course!
If I had looked closer I would have seen that the flowwer is not in soil but attached to a larger plant. The flowers looked to familiar that I leapt to a conclusion!
If I had looked closer I would have seen that the flowwer is not in soil but attached to a larger plant. The flowers looked to familiar that I leapt to a conclusion!
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I planted lily of the valley bulbs but I have never had any flowers -- well I have one late blooming sort of lily of the valley if there is such a thing.
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It might be that it flowers better on starvation ration?alice44 wrote:I planted lily of the valley bulbs but I have never had any flowers -- well I have one late blooming sort of lily of the valley if there is such a thing.
I have a lot of it in the country. Some roots that I brought to town got a very poor-soiled site, and do flower. But of course the stems with flowers are so much longer and more beautiful in a shady and humid spot. A friend has a really very dense clump in her garden (clay soil): flowers beautifully, looks beautiful.
PS. The shrub - can it be a Sarcococca? Sweet box or Christmas box; there are several garden varieties, might be S. ruscifolia, http://www.paghat.com/saracococca.html. Very much a guess, they don't grow here.
Edit: Sorry, Alice, you did write that the shrub has no scent. Sarcococca is out. But, please, it is so intriguing - can you find out? does anyone else recognize it?