Kleckner Oasis – Page 19 – ~Oasis Among the Cornfields~

Arctic Paulownia Hybrid

Arctic Paulownia is a Paulownia that suppose to grow fast and be hardy.

I have tried a few Paulownia trees in my Iowa location and so far all of them have died back to the ground. This is my best chance yet.

I don’t have many willows with yellow leaves, but this cultivar does.

By this time of the year, the leaves have mellowed out.

Globe Thistles are very attractive flowers for honeybees.

The plants are perennials and are able to compete with the surrounding vegetation.

Planted some Golden White Willow cuttings.

They have taken off pretty good, though the Pokeweed is competing well.

Triple Crown and Chester Blackberries are currently being harvested every day.

I have to pick them often and stay ahead of the Spotted wing drosophila fruit flies.

Wingnut seed has always been easy to grow.

This particular species is Chinese Wingnut. There are some other species I also grow.

Hibiscus Syriacus is a species of a flowering shrub, that has many different cultivars available.

The flowers are in abundance at this time of the year.

Double Rose of Sharon has impressive summer flowers.

These shrubs can be flower at a time of the year that not many other shrubs do.

Most Moths are not very large, but I sometimes will come across a big one.

I was hoping these apples would have ripened sooner, but it has been still sooner than any of my other apples.

I have planted some other early season apples lately, so I will see in the future if they produce earlier than this apple.