Beautyberry fruits are setting: the flower petals are falling off and revealing the berries.
Not only are the flowers and berries pleasing violet colors, the leaves repel insects and ticks, and you can make jelly and wine from beautyberries.
![[Beautyberry fruit setting, 2025:06:15 10:36:03]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-15--beautyberry/20250615_103603.jpg)
Beautyberry fruit setting, 2025:06:15 10:36:03
Once the berries get some color, you’ll see why it’s called beautyberry. They’re a pleasing violet color. The flowers are an even lighter violet. Also, the whole plant smells good. Continue reading
Twenty one species in a thousand feet down the Not-a-Driveway from piney woods through seepage slope to beaver pond.
Plus Canis familiaris and garden variety human. While we did not see any beaver, Castor canadensis, there was quite a bit of evidence of them.
Species identifications are by Seek by iNaturalist, which is usually pretty reliable. I do doubt a few of them.
For example, what seek identifies as Pineland hibiscus, Hibiscus aculeatus, sure looks to me like halberd-leaf rosemallow, Hibiscus laevis.
Far more species than these live in our subtropical paradise. These are just the plants (and fungi) I happened to focus on today.
![[Ten-angled pipewort or bog button, Eriocaulon decangulare, 2025:06:15 09:52:26]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-15--plants-not-a-driveway/20250615_095226.jpg)
Ten-angled pipewort or bog button, Eriocaulon decangulare, 2025:06:15 09:52:26
Apparently this is a Pineland Hibiscus, Hibuscus aculeatus.
To me it looks a lot like a halberdleaf rose-mallow or scarlet rose mallow, Hibiscus laevis.
Any botanists want to disambiguate?
Also, what kind of bee is that? Continue reading
The power came back on about 20 minutes later.
![[Trucks for Colquitt EMC on Hambrick Road during a power outage, 2025:06:09 15:35:12, 31.0148245, -83.2695067]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-09--electric-trucks-hambrick-road/20250609_153512.jpg)
Trucks for Colquitt EMC on Hambrick Road during a power outage, 2025:06:09 15:35:12, https://www.google.com/maps/@31.0148245,-83.2695067,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0
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But Sky Dog is not in the picture.
![[River, Honeybun, Blondie, Gretchen, Lucky Peggy's north field, and the sky]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-05--sky-no-sky-dog/20250605_203457.jpg)
River, Honeybun, Blondie, Gretchen, Lucky Peggy’s north field, and the sky
Sky was behind me, on the golf cart.
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Sometimes I need to go on top of the overroof we built, to clean the wood stove chimney, or to sweep off pinestraw. Instead of climbing 16 feet up the straw-slippery roof slope, I prefer to go through this trap door.
Which blew open in Hurricane Helene. So now it has a latch.
Who knows that that thing I used to hold the latch shut is called? (I’m not going to admit I had to look it up.)
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Scattered across an acre like this, growing on blackberry bushes, maypop is one of the most recognizable flowers.
Aka Passionflower, Passiflora incarnata is the host plant of the Gulf fritillary butterfly, Dione vanillae. The adult butterflies plant eggs on maypops, and the caterpillars eat the leaves. http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/?p=9756
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![[Movie: Flower]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-14--rosemallow/20250614_100026.jpg)
![[Above us only sky]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-05--sky-no-sky-dog/20250605_203453.jpg)
![[Sky picking blackberries]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-06-07--sky-picking-blackberries/20250607_113735.jpg)
![[Canned okra and yellow squash]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-28--okra-squash-canned/20250528_210257.jpg)
![[Trapdoor closed]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-26--roof-hatch-latch/20250526_094953.jpg)
![[Okra and tomatoes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--okra-tomatoes/20250530_201817.jpg)
![[Maypops]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--maypops/20250530_193817.jpg)
![[Climbing on blackberry bushes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-05-30--maypops/20250530_193826.jpg)