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Jun. 30th, 2014 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardI took a break in what turned out to be a 15-mile bike ride to tie up at Bartram's Garden and wander around taking a few pictures. I stopped at the little pond and thought of pameladean's recent post on dragonflyish creatures. I don't know one from another, but I did see a double-winged fat-bodied job with dark spots on its transparent wings and a body that looked like it should be an LED light. Several of them, in fact. One was sitting on a reed and another was zipping around chasing away all the others. Breeding pair, maybe? I also saw some thinnish thingies with skinny little bodies, which I assume was some kind of a darner. I saw blue, too.
This is what is especially for pameladean. I photographed this plant some years ago and we had some back-and-forth about what it might be. It now has a label in front of it -- Spigelia marilandica. It's supposed to be good for hummingbirds. Looks to me like ornamental basil. I think it had square stems.
In other news, I am not seeing any signs of pollination of the Nopalxochia but will continue to hope until the flowers fall off. I'm also keeping a weather eye on a cutting of New Guinea impatiens that has at least stopped wilting. I dipped it in Rootone and potted it in seedling mix about a week ago.
And yesterday/today I applied mort aux fungus gnats to everyone in the second and third floors.
EDITED SEVERAL TIMES:pameladean, if you're getting notifications every time I change a semicolon or fix bad code, I apologize.
pameladean's recent post on dragonflyish creatures. I don't know one from another, but I did see a double-winged fat-bodied job with dark spots on its transparent wings and a body that looked like it should be an LED light. Several of them, in fact. One was sitting on a reed and another was zipping around chasing away all the others. Breeding pair, maybe? I also saw some thinnish thingies with skinny little bodies, which I assume was some kind of a darner. I saw blue, too.This is what is especially for pameladean. I photographed this plant some years ago and we had some back-and-forth about what it might be. It now has a label in front of it -- Spigelia marilandica. It's supposed to be good for hummingbirds. Looks to me like ornamental basil. I think it had square stems.
In other news, I am not seeing any signs of pollination of the Nopalxochia but will continue to hope until the flowers fall off. I'm also keeping a weather eye on a cutting of New Guinea impatiens that has at least stopped wilting. I dipped it in Rootone and potted it in seedling mix about a week ago.
And yesterday/today I applied mort aux fungus gnats to everyone in the second and third floors.
EDITED SEVERAL TIMES:
pameladean, if you're getting notifications every time I change a semicolon or fix bad code, I apologize.
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Date: 2014-07-07 06:49 pm (UTC)I had forgotten just how weird that plant is. I'm not at all surprised that hummingbirds like it, and I am delighted to have a name to put to it.
Your dragonflies were probably common whitetails. The LED-light body means it's a male of the species. The females have three dark spots on each wing, and look a great deal like female twelve-spotted skimmers unless you can examine the markings on the body closely.
P.