legumes Archives : Cast Iron Forest to Skillet

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11/26/2023 minor plant miracle!

My seemingly giant finger pointing at a very tiny sprig of green emerging from an otherwise gray stem. — I was examining the stems and base of the two scarlet peas we dug up in early fall from the doomed prairie (sold for building on) in town. I’ve been watering both since we moved them. Today I noticed a tiny green shoot emerging from one stem of one plant! I’m going to try to grow this species from seed too but it’s nice to know at least one made it.

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08/22/2023 partridge pea in morning

Yellow legume flowers with brown and black centers are clustered along stalks that have compound blue- green leaves. — Partridge peas were blooming in shade before work but they close up later in the day as the full brunt of the sun and 100 degree F heat hits them.

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07/11/2023 build it and they will come

A hairstreak caterpillar on the Dalea purpurea from Abby. It just started blooming in the last few weeks.

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07/11/2023 bizarrely wet summer

We got another 2.8 inches of rain overnight according to the Oklahoma Mesonet. I went outside to look at the puddles and remaining sprinkles and saw the partridge pea in the caliche planter had produced a new beautiful yellow flower and the whole plant was covered in little raindrops.

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06/27/2023 purple prairie clover!

The purple prairie clover plants from Abby are doing well… one even is starting several flower buds!

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06/21/2023 forgot I dispersed rattlebox (Crotalaria sagittalis) seeds

I bought rattlebox, a cute native annual plant, last year at the Botany Club plant sale. I forgot that I put some seeds in the prickly pear’s planter but this solves the mystery of these lightly fuzzed leaves! So cute! I hope they like this spot and return again.

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