stonethegardener

I post flowers on the day that I shoot them (or shortly there-after) And I really needed a record of when the pictures were taken. The bit of code that says ”Posted 58 minutes ago”,  ”Posted 6 months ago”, Wasn’t specific enough for me when showing the pics to people that are interested in what blooms when….

Hence the need for dated posts. 

I discovered this bit of code on one of my follower’s blogs.

 I quickly set up their theme on one of my test blogs, to have a look at what made it possible.

I don’t know what the coders were thinking when they created the new side code, I find it completely unusable.

Lucky for us coders, they left the back door open, we can still get somewhere that we can work with & see the source code. They call it “classic” in a seeming allusion to the “new coke”.

Anyway, after visiting the classic customize page, you’ll be adding the code (from the rectangle below), to the html section. I added it under “{block:Posts}<div class=”post”>” .

{block:Date}
 {Month} {DayOfMonthWithZero}, {Year}  {/block:Date}

We went down to Central City Park yesterday to see Skydog 65, an Alman brothers tribute band.

Entrance fee: 10 cans of food for the Macon Rescue Mission.

The music perfectly captured the Almans, and the crowd was appreciative.

End of the season for this salvia. There are better pictures of the leaves shot in the Spring, on one of my other salvia posts

Honorine Jobert

This king snake was camera shy…

I didn’t care to reach in and pull him out…  While perfectly harmless, their mouths are equipped with teeth, and may as well face it, they prefer not to be handled.

These guys come up a little too easily from dropped seeds, and some people make a habit of cutting these beautiful seed clusters off.

Kind of loses the appeal of growing the plant if you’re going to destroy the attractive part.

Grown in the dry shade, keeps these babies in check.

Weeds that you can eat…
I’ve collected these in the winter while they’re rosettes, boiled the roots, and the greens, and they were tasty.

I wouldn’t try it now, any more than I would eat lettuce that had bolted.

Apparently there is some variation in different patches of evening primrose, Here’s a discussion about having found peppery ones

A freshly harvested pile of evening primrose (last winter)

There’s something about gesneriads

Y’all will remember the hemiboea that I posted last month.

The melon wasn’t harmed, but the vine is done, and the melon isn’t ripe.

I did get a ripe one off the frosted vine.

Not only does this stuff produce hundreds of tubers to dig, it has the capacity to produce seed.

Spray round-up, and the tubers come up. Dig the stuff, and still the missed tubers come up next week.

Additional Nut sedge pictures posted a month ago.

Aconite has cool names, like wolf’s bane.

Aconite has a cool flower when you see it in the flower catalog, but aconite is disappointing to grow, blooming late in the season (now) sending up tall unbranched bloom stalks that tend to fall over due to the weight.

It’s still an interesting plant, which deserves it’s place in the haunted garden.

Happy Halloween.

Dog fennel is a tall bulky weed, an indicator of poor soil, but it does actually taste like fennel and I’ve eaten small amounts of it in salads.

Pollinator

Blackeyed susans (rudbeckia sp.) still blooming!

Dune sunflower (Helianthus debilis) also still blooming.

Green Leafies!

Nom nom, collards!

I’m having a bit of a time discovering a name for these.

I’ve found websites that call these “swamp sunflowers” and they clearly are not. The center ‘eye’ is much lighter, and there’s those stolons…

I’m kinda leaning toward Helianthus giganteus… but, no mention of stolons.

Searching stoloniferous sunflowers yields helianthus strumosus, helianthus hirsutus, helianthus divaricatus, helianthus laetiflorus… this isn’t any of those.

see the stolons! the thicker whiter roots will emerge through the soil, and become additional plants.

Ageratina altissima

An attractive if poisonous native wildflower.

small due to the prolonged drought. Tithonia is a self-sowing annual here in zone 8.

I really like these, but I can’t seem to find an id.

I found an id after posting repeatedly on sites that have threads dedicated to naming your plant. ‘Summer’s farewell’ (Dalea pinnata).