Colewort is a large perennial plant that gets as large as some bushes. They attract a lot of insects when they flower.
Tag Archives: fast growing
Bigfoot Pumpkins
Willows are fast growing, but Pumpkins Vines are faster.
Purple Robe Locust Limb Breakage
Some trees like the Purple Robe Locust grow fast and have a great flower show every year. But this hybrid tree has a poor form and has the top break out often in storms.
Willow Flowers
Some willow trees are very attractive in spring. The Bigfoot Willow is a male hybrid willow and has numerous catkins that make the trees look yellow for a short time before fully leafed out.
Wingnut Neighbors
These two different species of wingnuts are keeping each other company in the goat pasture. Someday these Wingnuts(Pterocarya) should cross and produce hybrid trees.
Moment of Ice
Freezing rain gives its own beauty to the landscape and tests the strength of plants. Big bamboo leaf glazed in ice. Some fast growing trees like the Bigfoot Willow resistant ice damage.
Blue Sky Donax
The Arundo Donax has gone skyward this year with its fast growth. Giant Reed has been my tallest grass ever, at 18 feet tall.
Pacific Willow
The Pacific Willow is out of place in Iowa. The young willow has large leaves.
Too Attractive To Die
When raising goats, there are a lot of bucks that end up being born that will end up being eaten. So what better way to make them last forever than taking a photo of them, especially when they are this beautiful! In the background is a fast growing hybrid poplar I planted last year.
Algae Blanket
My dad walked up from the cattle water tank and pulled this out of there: A nice green blanket of algae in there. That algae grows very fast.