Spring has sprung, with yellow jessamine in full bloom, and the pines producing plenty of pollen.
![[Yellow jessamine, loblolly, longleaf]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-03-06--pine-pollen-yellow-jessamine/many.jpg)
Yellow jessamine, loblolly, longleaf
It was 35 degrees this morning, but freezes seem to be over. Continue reading
Tag Archives: pines
Dogs in pine straw
Smile, dogs:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 October 2012.
The tree behind the dogs on their right is a longleaf four years old; the rest are loblolly five years old.
-jsq
Double rainbow in the okra field
Old Road
This is a road, at least a hundred years old, after a prescribed burn:
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 March 2012.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman
Those are mostly slash pines (Pinus elliottii), with one or two longleaf and some oaks.
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Burning some piney woods 2012 01 31
Why to burn more frequently:
vines grow up trees and form ladder fuels
Prescribed burn of some piney woods at Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia.
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, 31 January 2012.
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, 31 January 2012.
Fortunately these vines were mostly in
invasive exotics anyway
(chinaberry, mimosa, Japanese privet) that had grown up along the field edge.
After a few minutes,
here’s the result.
Most of the rest of the woods burned much more evenly, with flames only a foot or two above the ground.