September 2015 – Kleckner Oasis

Yellow Delicious Heavy Load

The Yellow Delicious tree is loaded with as many apples as it can handle. The branches keep bending lower under the weight of the growing apple crop.

Crimson Beauty Knotweed, Maybe?

My Crimson Beauty Knotweed flowers later than my other knotweed, but also has white flowers. This cultivar suppose to have crimson flowers. Anyways, these plants attract a lot of pollinating insects with all of its late season nectar.

Korean Pears

The Korean Asian Pears are becoming ripe and ready to eat. This is the first year that I had chestnuts off my Oikos Hybrid Chestnut tree.

Miscanthus Cultivars

Various Miscanthus Grass cultivars are planted among the Persimmons and Pecans. A lot of the Miscanthus is flowering now. This grass is one of the most ornamental, with the large white plumes, it is sometimes called Pampas grass.

Canna Seedling

A few Cannas started growing from seed in the garden. The seed had to be 20 years or more old. The consistent rains have helped these Cannas go from seed to flowering.

Big Leaf Comparison

The Chinese Necklace Poplar has the biggest leaves of the Populus genus. Though when grown next to a Paulownia tree, the leaves look small.

Golden Raintree Seedpods

The Golden Raintree is done flowering. Now the seed pods are dried and the seed is ready to be harvested.

Pirates!

Now that the fields are being harvested, an influx of Minute Pirate Bugs have come on my Oasis. They are feeding off nectar.

Pineapple Pear

I picked my Pineapple Pears a month ago. But this one I had missed and somehow kept growing instead of rotting away.