my friend lisa in south carolina has sent me many unusual plants over the years, and pictures of even more. yesterday she sent photos of some of the very strange botany that she sees just in her own neighborhood.
this is the best i have to offer in return. these turnips, we just never got to eating them. we ate some of the others, but these two, we just never got to them. and so they started to sprout green tops, and we thought, eh, let's just go with it.
i suppose we'll put them out in the yard.
it was two springs ago that we had our first mantis extravaganza. we didn't do it last year as we anticipated the building of the garden planter and didn't want to see little mantids stuck in mortar. but this year, we are back in the business of mantids, and the egg sacs are here!
today i gave them a foster mother (also from my friend lisa in SC, these rubberized mantids...)
and a dad, and a little foster home, complete with sticks and a turkey wishbone. (i thought they might enjoy it.)
we'll see what happens over the next couple of months!