700 pounds of acorns stuffed inside the walls of a home
Who was the mastermind behind the massive hoard of nuts?
A pair of acorn woodpeckers who likely collected acorns for the past two to five years, Castro told CNN.
He shared his unusual experience on Facebook, saying the acorns filled up eight garbage bags and weighed in at about 700 pounds. Castro's post included photos of the massive acorn pile.
"Bird was a bit of a hoarder," Castro said in his post.
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From Twitter:
Excited to honor history & celebrate the future in our beautiful @WhiteHouse Rose Garden this evening. Thank you to all who helped renew this iconic & truly gorgeous space. pic.twitter.com/ggiqLkdGbw
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) August 22, 2020
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I love this pot because it belonged to my grandmother Lola Inez Hood Dunavant, who was an avid gardener. All of my grandparents were gardeners. My love for vegetable gardening was spawned by years of summer vacations spent in the vegetable gardens of my paw paw Thornton and paw paw Dunavant. My grandmother Dunavant and my Dad are responsible for my love of water gardening. They both maintained (grandmother) and maintain (Dad) beautiful water gardens.
Although our Muscadine Vine does not sit in our water garden area, it is a part of the overall backyard garden area. The Muscadine grape grows wild in the southeastern U.S.. Our Muscadine is a mature and very fruitful vine. The dark grape is sweet, juicy and very tasteful.
The pansy or pansy violets are a large group of hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers Pansies are derived from Viola species Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana
A new addition to the pond area is our Lemon tree. It is a Meyer Lemon that was purchased at Bennett Nurseries. Wikipedia says the Meyer Lemon (Citrus × meyeri) is a citrus fruit, native to China, thought to be a cross between a true lemon and a mandarin orange or sweet orange. The Meyer lemon was introduced to the United States in 1908 as S.P.I. #23028, by the agricultural explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer, an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture who collected a sample of the plant on a trip to China.
This is a picture of the worlds largest Hosta. I have placed my Harley Road King in front of the Hosta so you can see the size. The bike is actually a scale model of the 2006 Harley Road King.
This is a strawberry plant I have placed in a concrete planter I made.
Here i have placed a strawberry plant in a metal bucket. I hung the strawberry plant in full sun. Notice the long tendrils trailing from the bucket. If you look closely, you can see the shiny CD that is placed in the bucket to discourage birds from eating the ripening strawberries
The picture above are pots of peppers (Cayenne and Jalapeno) and moss rose.
Above is a large planter where I have placed a tree, bulbs, Irish Moss, and two different types of ground cover. Additionally, I placed a landscape light in the pot to help highlight the container at night.
Pick up some cotton seed from your local nursery or your nearest cotton gin and plant the seed in a large pot. The cotton plant makes a beautiful ornamental specimen plant for your backyard garden. The picture above is a freshly emerging plant that has just popped through the soil. The plant will eventually bloom with pretty flowers and then produce cotton. Many of us have seen cotton growing in fields, but it is so taken for granted in the deep south that we do not think of placing a specimen cotton plant in our backyard so we can enjoy the beauty of cotton up close. Stay tuned for more pictures as the plant matures.
Note: Be sure to check the agricultural laws in your area before growing cotton. This protects large cotton farmers from boll weevil infestation.
This is a picture of some blue pansies. This pansies do well this time of year here in North Alabama. This picture was taken on May 6, 2010.
