A trip to the farm on June 2 was a beautiful day and we left early to get there. Uneventful drive over, once we got there everything looked great. We had some new plants the neighbors gave us to plant, hostas, iris’s and some ivy. The hostas we planted around one of the big loblolly pine trees, ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQi5OxngI3wcenQYxiF7BlP6vLhSCE80JkCnMEX8nH7S775gTfijSa3iLXn5H3_JznhRuJGxTqi30ojS6Rv_2fG5SpHMS8AAI9EM-Sa3TdqDwjpbNRqxIM7DvgvKI9EELme0TD_Tjqsoc/s200/DSC01371.JPG)
the iris’s we planted down by the south pond next to the white birch tree. The ivy we started on the slope next to the dam on the south pond. Hopefully this will get a good start here and we will be able to get starts off of it and get it to growing on the whole dam.
Next we went around checking some of our plants, the one crab apple tree that I had planted a year ago and that I had mowed off this spring, has new life. It has grown 6-8” since I mowed it.![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtWtS_wCwpgtULUP2jGFC3rQCikTKIk34dbITNEWX_0tvvb57d4Itvk_T_4l17bSC1SczHCc9wLCx8OgWdK4uER-ZhyphenhyphenTf7GEE0F4HJ3jXWHIcFS9HI6e-cQdIx0P_rnmCOpsQ_2Q6KOFA/s200/DSC01365.JPG)
the iris’s we planted down by the south pond next to the white birch tree. The ivy we started on the slope next to the dam on the south pond. Hopefully this will get a good start here and we will be able to get starts off of it and get it to growing on the whole dam.
Next we went around checking some of our plants, the one crab apple tree that I had planted a year ago and that I had mowed off this spring, has new life. It has grown 6-8” since I mowed it.
All of the plants look good, hopefully we will get some rain in the next couple of days to help them out.
Red Bud
Next we swapped out the disks on the camera’s, yes I no longer have to take the computer to the farm. Since the cost of 1 GB scandisks have gone down, I was able to buy four of them for what it use to cost for one of them. The new site of the one camera has turned out good, although I don’t have many pictures from it the ones I do have are good. I also took pictures of the places we have put minerals/trophy rock out for the deer. They sure have been using these spots.
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As we were leaving the one area where the game camera is at I noticed something up the hill side, I asked Lois if she seen anything up the hill and she said she saw an orange flag up there, well here is the orange flag.
It is called butterfly weed and I just love this color of orange, there were two different plants of it growing here. The butterflys really like this plant and if you click on the picture it will enlarge and you will see a butterfly.
We then went in to eat, when we got back Lois cleaned Jessie the truck out with the vacuum cleaner. Here is a better picture of Jessie.
I pulled two of the posts out of the ground that were used to worm cattle when they use to be on the farm. They were set in concrete, so it took a some working with them to pull them out.
Next I went out and started weed eating and spraying around some of the little loblolly pine trees. They are growing fast and by cutting the weeds and then spraying the weeds with round up, the pines don’t have to fight the weeds for water and nutrients.
To see more pictures from this camera and the other camera go to the other blog site http://htfgamecamerapics.blogspot.com/