Category: Leaves

Leaf Pictures, Lot of Photos, Images of different leaves from Deciduous, Evergreen and Conifer Trees.

Winter’s First Snow

Some love snow … Some do not!

Here are some images of Winter’s First Snow!

Foot steps left in the fresh fluffy snow.  Best type of Snow.
Snow accumulates again the bamboo shoots at the garden’s edge.

All the café visitor’s are gone now that the snow has arrived.

Fresh fluffy snow collects on the weeping white pine tree.

Snow piles a soft white doom on the old pine tree stump in the garden.

Snow fakes pile up on the larch trees branches.

Red chairs are waiting for new visitors in the Spring.

Snow decorates a garden sculpture mounted on a tree stump.

Snow sticks to the Fern Leaf Beech tree’s yellow Fall leaves.

Fluffy snow rests on the colorful green and yellow Cypress Tree leaves.
.Crab Apple Tree’s red fruit stands out against the new white snow

Infestation by Gypsy Moth Caterpillar

Will the Gypsy Moth Infestation 2022 be the same as last year?

The Gypsy Moth Caterpillar starts out as an extremely tiny 1/4″ – 60 mm long thin hard to see Caterpillar.  But not for long as they grow quickly eating your broad leaf trees, oak, basswood, maples, larch  … even conifers such as the pine and spruce.

Gypsy Caterpillar Tree infestation will strip a tree of most of it’s leaves.

So what’s the solution?

  1. Tree Service company to inject the tree at the base early before Gypsy Moth Caterpillar has grown too large to kill.
  2. Small trees that are too young, hire a Tree Service to spray the tree’s leaves which kills the Gypsy Moth Caterpillar on contact.  Good option for young and smaller trees that cannot be injected
  3. Extreem infestation, hire flyby air spray to do large areas or multiple neighbours
  4. Wait to Next Year, hope that your trees survive the Gypsy Caterpillar eating frensy

PS The male Gypsy Moth flies around endlessly, not eating, just looking to mate with a female Gypsy Moth.

2022: Moth Pods are laid and ready. If you look at an infected tree’s bark you can see loonie  size whitish-grey pods which contain the eggs to be hatched!

…Hopefully this cold winter might reduce the number of Gypsy Moths in 2022. 

 

Grass Hut with Thatched Palm Leaves

Buying a palapa umbrella, tiki hut, gazebo or grass hut one should consider getting a natural woven palm leaf roof to add to your tropical theme in the backyard, at the hot tub or at the pool.  A design upgrade a Palm leaf roof can be of different products: Mexician Palm, African Reed, Synthetic Palm & Reed to name a few. 

Did you know a good palm leaf roof can last over 10 years in Florida .. add 5 years if in California