Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (oakarina) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:38:39 GMT

1st prize for me, is the Giant magnolia tree across the st from the Richdale on E. Main st., now in its 4th week of a spectacular show, from buds to pinks to whites! Wowsa! A wonderful show of bulbs, at the Flannagan Sq gas station, too. Also the Mc'Donald's parking lot plantings of cherry trees, mollis azaleas, in full bloom worth a drive thru. The rain is very cold here, slowly soaking everything.

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (Gypsy) — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:09:24 GMT

Boy, everything is blooming today! They love this rain...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (leftwingnut) — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:56:10 GMT

Heh!

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (KalesyGal) — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:52:29 GMT

leftwingnut wrote:

Where's that Roundup...

NO - not Roundup! Anything but a Monsanto product...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (leftwingnut) — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:49:30 GMT

And mine has just started to come up, right where I thought I'd eliminated it last year...

Where's that Roundup...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (jackj22) — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:30:05 GMT

Invasive species In the U.S.A. and Europe Japanese knotweed is widely considered an invasive species or weed.[1] It can be found in 39 of the 50 United States (PUSDA) and in six provinces in Canada. The species is also common in Europe. In the U.K. it was made illegal to spread Japanese knotweed by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and it is listed by the World Conservation Union as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species.[4] In the U.S.A. it is listed as an invasive weed in...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (Gypsy) — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:21:21 GMT

Many large supplement sources of resveratrol now use Japanese knotweed and use its scientific name in the supplement labels.[

Considering how much there is of it around here it could replace the "sacred cod" as Gloucester's new crop...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (captjoe06) — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:41:40 GMT

Good work Kalesy!

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (KalesyGal) — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:23:40 GMT

Found it! Japanese knotweed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_knotweed

Uses

Japanese knotweed flowers are valued by some beekeepers as an important source of nectar for honeybees, at a time of year when little else is flowering. Japanese knotweed yields a monofloral honey, usually called bamboo honey by northeastern

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (leftwingnut) — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:01:19 GMT

I've been told you can prepare the stems much like rhubarb, but I never tried it myself.

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (Gypsy) — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:42:26 GMT

It is all over the cemetery out back. Wonder if it is useful for anything...

Any Euell Gibbons followers out there?

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (leftwingnut) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:18:14 GMT

That's exactly the hollow, round-stemmed pseudo-rhubarb stuff someone else described. It grows very rapidly and is invasive -- I pulled all mine up repeatedly last year and seem to have rid myself of it -- if you let it grow, it will take over.

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (KalesyGal) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:46:31 GMT

oakarina wrote:
You're correct, wolfie, re: Phragmites. But I can't picture what Kalsesy is describing. Maybe h/she would mark one, along the Back Shore, tying a small ribbon or flag on one of the plants, describing an approx. location of same, here.

Well, the lighting is bad and I'm not nearly as talented as others on the board w/ my PointClickNShoot... but, here's some photos of the mysterious...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (Gypsy) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:37:46 GMT

I went rummaging though my collection of photographs of weeds hoping I could find what oak is talking about but don't think they are in any of the pictures here. However, I did find a great photo for Captain Joe!

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (leftwingnut) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:49:17 GMT

I think the person who described that stuff that looks like a round, hollow rhubarb might be on the right track.

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (oakarina) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:41:30 GMT

You're correct, wolfie, re: Phragmites. But I can't picture what Kalsesy is describing. Maybe h/she would mark one, along the Back Shore, tying a small ribbon or flag on one of the plants, describing an approx. location of same, here.

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (leftwingnut) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:03:06 GMT

You're describing Phragmites, Oak -- the common reed, an invasive species that is harming our salt marshes.

I don't think this is the same plant Kalesy is asking about.

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (oakarina) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:46:07 GMT

It's those wetland plants, all brown now, and very thick, with furry tops on top of tall stalks. Developers hate them 'cause they signal wetlands. They're all along the Rte 128 extension, between Exits, 9 and 10. both sides of the hiway. And also behind homes along Bass Ave. I don't know the botanical name. They seem to flourish best in a mixture of salt and fresh water. In yards, they're the devil to get rid of, smothering all else, with long root structures, and their...

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (star squiggle) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:05:04 GMT

i bet it's that stuff that has a hollow stalk like bamboo and the coloring of rhubarb...it is everywhere

Re: Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (KalesyGal) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:32:48 GMT

captjoe06 wrote:

If the stalks are thickly covered in thorns then it is Rosa Rugosa.

Thanks for the response Capt. Joe! Unfortunately the Google image search on Rosa didn't seem like what I was talking about. Maybe tomorrow (as I'm playing hookey from work!) I'll take a walk and snap a pic of the mysterious plant. But I'm loving finding out about all these new green friends up here!

Spectacular flowering magnolias and weeping cherry trees

feeds@yuku.com (oakarina) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:36:09 GMT

Please add to the list.

WEEPING CHERRY trees

.Grant Circle traffic island, gorgeous weeping cherry. Don't miss it. Thank you, William, and others, who've helped care for it. Nice daffodils,too.
.Eastern Point Road, a pair of them, on the water, about 200 yds beyond corner of RN Ave, heading towards Niles Beach.

"REGULAR MAGNOLIAS
Magnificent huge tree, across from Richdale, E. Main St.

MAGNOLIA STELLATAS ie...