Wild Flowers, Berries, and other plants.

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My Dad's yellow lilies, man are they fragrant!
 

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Blueberries are starting to blush with a blue hue. I put the bird nets over them this am.

They'll be ready for picking in about 10 days. I should get 3 to 4 gallons this year.
 

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Thunder Good-Oil said:
They usually have blue flowers in acidic soil and pink flowers in alkaline soil.
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That's interesting to know. We have some people in our neighborhood with some that are those or combo, which are nice. Ours are white, but they haven't bloomed this year, just grown massively this year.
 
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pismonque said:
I had a friend that shared an interest in birds, and he'd be pointing out a bird in the distance, saying, "See him over there at the top of that oak, the one between the big poplar and that scrawny-looking birch?" And I'd just get mad, thinking how in the hell can I be out here differentiating between varieties of hawk or sparrow when I can't even name the simple damn trees they're sitting in?

That's when I bought a couple books about tree identification, and digging into those I got fascinated with the different branching patterns and leaf types and other particularities of growth. It's all really interesting when you wade into it a bit.

Same goes with flowers, really.
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I need to get me a book with trees and flowers. It'll help me and the kids. I was fortunate with the trees, and some plants. My dad knew about all of them and we stayed in the woods in Kentucky. Well, he knew most all of what was natural to our area. Every time we'd be out hunting and fishing he'd show me stuff and tell me what it was. Some of it stuck.
 
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joevol33 said:
I need to get me a book with trees and flowers. It'll help me and the kids. I was fortunate with the trees, and some plants. My dad knew about all of them and we stayed in the woods in Kentucky. Well, he knew most all of what was natural to our area. Every time we'd be out hunting and fishing he'd show me stuff and tell me what it was. Some of it stuck.
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Besides the usual field guides, Audubon and such, I found this one really interesting. It has its limitations but I really enjoyed it.

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Hydrangeas and Blueberries love acidic soils. Two ways to achieve acidic soil
Is to mulch them with pine straw or oak leaves.
 
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pismonque said:
Besides the usual field guides, Audubon and such, I found this one really interesting. It has its limitations but I really enjoyed it.

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Thanks. If I remember next time we're at the mall I will look at books a million. I'd like for my girls to learn more, and they all love to read.
 
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This is the book I refer to in the OP. Awesome book for identifying flowers. It is arranged by color, making it very easy to identify.



And now I must reorder it.
 

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malinoisvol said:
This is the book I refer to in the OP. Awesome book for identifying flowers. It is arranged by color, making it very easy to identify.



And now I must reorder it.
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Just shy of free shipping!
 
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Updated, almost all, pictures of flowers with their "common name".
 
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malinoisvol said:
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Good book. Took me about 30 min to skim it for arrangement/flow.

Will do a critical read over the next week or so, as my son's car drama allows:)
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I told my girls we were gonna get some books so they could learn this stuff.
 
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