Posts under ‘Property’

In a lot of respects, visiting in early April was beneficial – the flower of the bloodroot plant does not last that long – it blooms from March until May, so I caught it pretty much in the middle of its blooming period. The flower petals are shed within a couple of days of pollination [...]

There is a large colony of this plant on my neighbor’s property and since it grows in a rather damp location, I didn’t expect to find it on my property. But here it is! I took this picture, on my neighbor’s property, back in May of 2008. Here is the picture that I took on [...]

This has been such a wonderful learning experience! I never would have known that the plants that I found on my property had so many uses. The one featured in this post, Catchweed Bedstraw, is regarded by many as a terrible weed, suitable only for being yanked out of the ground. However, the plant was [...]

I didn’t find many common blue violets, a native North American wildflower, on my property, most likely because April marks the beginning of the blooming season for the plant – it blooms until June. According to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service website, it is a common plant throughout the eastern two-thirds of the United [...]

I spent a fair amount of time, head down and camera in hand, searching the ground for interesting-looking plants. I was intrigued with the narrow leaves of this plant but the flower hadn’t opened yet. Still, I thought it was pretty. It is a Spring Beauty plant, much loved by Native Americans because the tuber [...]

The Putty Root is a terrestrial orchid – it is also called the Adam & Eve plant. This is because there are a pair of corms in the ground – Adam and Eve. One way to propagate the plant is to cut the corms apart and plant the older one. But the plant produces a [...]

Now, here is a very interesting plant that, unlike the two previous plants in this series, happens to be native to Eastern North America. It is interesting that I found it on my property, since it is a plant that loves well-drained loamy soils and moist woodlands. My property is on a south-facing slope, but [...]

Continuing the series started with Colt’s Foot, we move on to the Burdock (arctium lappa) plant: This is another plant that is native to Europe and, because the seeds have hooks on them that grab onto nearly anything, it makes me wonder if the plant was introduced via animals brought from Europe by the Scots-Irish [...]

I visited my property in Floyd County last week to take care of a number of things and, while there, took pictures of plants and flowers that were unfamiliar to me. Fred First, the resident botanical expert in Floyd, identified them for me. Rather than combine all of the pictures into one post, I’m going [...]

I’ve wanted to build a “cool” house forever, or at least since I was a pre-teen. Ten years ago, I thought I would finally have the opportunity to do so, only to have my dreams dashed by a combination of onerous property taxes and impossibly difficult building regulations in Miami, Florida. I set out, once [...]