tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post8607444324840082557..comments2024-03-28T18:10:13.551-04:00Comments on Field and Fen: Field and Fen lives up to its name for onceBoudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-17702609743523825642017-01-15T14:58:58.311-05:002017-01-15T14:58:58.311-05:00Positively final note on witchhazel: this year, fu...Positively final note on witchhazel: this year, fully open blossoms have no scent at all. Wondering why. Usually a nice gentle smell in the house. Witchhazel seems to have a complex life, so maybe it's just in a nonscented year.Boudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-83701126299627845932017-01-15T14:47:49.206-05:002017-01-15T14:47:49.206-05:00What a lovely post, full of all the things I love....What a lovely post, full of all the things I love. Thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment! I'll be back to visit yours soon. (and the hat you made looks great!)Granny Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129064020727041161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-65860792691246094282017-01-13T18:27:32.806-05:002017-01-13T18:27:32.806-05:00Since I posted the pic the blossoms have opened an...Since I posted the pic the blossoms have opened and clearly are the ragged flowers we expected. I think the others are not petals but bracts. Seemingly witchhazel has a complicated private life, different happenings at different times. The two shrubs were close enough to touch each other. But the shrubs are configured differently, and I wonder if they're different species of wh.Boudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-35258707742422743592017-01-13T18:10:26.930-05:002017-01-13T18:10:26.930-05:00I had no idea what I'd triggered! But it sound...I had no idea what I'd triggered! But it sounds as if we're both right!off to look up treesweet now.Boudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00641013916263271948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-69505380944643574122017-01-13T17:32:10.110-05:002017-01-13T17:32:10.110-05:00ok, Ive searched for what I found yesterday and ca...ok, Ive searched for what I found yesterday and cannot find it. Rod seems to have found a site that shows that yellow flower as witch hazel at a different stage, possibly earlier than the stringy stage. <br /><br />sigh<br /><br />call it macaroni and let it go, I guess. It may be a seed setting stage, or a pre-flower stage...mittenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878611591683283429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-22761404639054237842017-01-13T16:34:56.163-05:002017-01-13T16:34:56.163-05:00oh thank you for this. You have either averted a ...oh thank you for this. You have either averted a potential divorce or created one; this is Treesweet. <br /><br /> My husband went out walking two days ago, in search of a witchhazel tree that a 'tree expert' identified for us last fall. He came home with a photo of what he said were witch hazel flowers. I looked it up on google and what it actually was, was Treesweet, those little yellow flowers you have in the photo. we have been going back and forth about it for two days, but since the difference between the two flowers is so striking, it had to have been Expert Oops at work. <br />I've learned not to trust experts for almost anything, not since the day I sent a photo of a mother owl and her baby to a guy who was a bird watcher. He promptly emailed me back and said, "that's a horned owl". I thought, where are the horns? and realized I was looking at a barred owl, and so was he. <br />mittenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878611591683283429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8905003879789876177.post-82620542837763863962017-01-13T16:28:17.117-05:002017-01-13T16:28:17.117-05:00oh thank you thank you you may have prevented a di...oh thank you thank you you may have prevented a divorce here<br /><br />some months back an 'expert" tree guy was up here identifying trees for us, and he came upon one tree and said, "that's witch hazel" and put a marker on it.<br />My husband went out two days ago to see if it was blooming and it was, and took a photo--when I looked it up on google images it showed me Treesweet for the picture he brought me home. Witchhazel is, as you say, a feathery strange looking flower. Check out Treesweet images on google images. I think you'll recognize it right awaymittenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878611591683283429noreply@blogger.com