This is a we don't want you, volunteer TREE the birds planted in the middle of the bougainvillea in the front yard. Bob cuts it back and it is 3 feet tall again in a few weeks. It is a carrot wood, and is an invasive tree in Florida that is hard to kill and per internet needs an arborist to kill it. Per University of Fla Remove Carrotwood from Your Property to Protect Florida's Natural Areas
Cupaniopsis anacardioides Carrotwood Non-native to Florida and on Florida Noxious Weed List FISC Category 1 Invasive more info here https://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/plant-directory/cupaniopsis-anacardioides/
The Palms have tripled in size since I picked them up from the neighbor's curb side trash.
All of this is due to a month of RAIN every day. Not all day, just a storm a day or a shower.
Tuesday night we had yet another Thunder Boomer Storm, it was even worse than the three a few days ago and put down 3 inches of rain in under 30 minutes, the street was a rising like a creek, and the boom/flashes were coming 3 at a time, at the SAME time.. per channel 7 we had 162 flashes in 16 minutes. another record and friend Jackie had hail, a tree fell on a house a few miles away and we had no damage and I did not have a heart attack while the booms were flashing... I waited each time for flames to appear on our roof. SO THANKFUL they did not
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Oh Man, I would have been TERRIFIED! Your palms look so healthy and pretty! From garbage to gorgeous!
Hari Om
What Ginny said...YAM xx
your palms are super!!! we just imagien that something grows in FL in your parks and streets for what we have to pay with lots of wonga... the world is crazy isn't it? :o)
Too bad about that carrotwood tree. The palms look awesome.
I thought we were going to have a storm the other day. It got really dark, there was thunder and lightning and then it cleared up. 172 flashes in 16 minutes is a lot.
Hi Sandra :=)
Any invasive plant especially if it is not a native plant should be incinerated. Will you get a Tree Surgeon to do the job of removing it permanently? I'm always finding plants at the side of our driveway, and transplanting them successfully in planters on my balcony. Isn't it a feel good feeling when you discover these free plants. Your palms are looking good, but the thunder and lightening does not give you a good feeling. I'm terrified of lightening, and the storm you had was really bad. I would have freaked out.
We do have a way of introducing plants and then bewailing their success and spending vast sums of money and inordinate efforts to remove them! The storm must have been quite terrifying. Thank goodness your property was neither burned nor flooded.
So thankful the storms did not do damage to you or your home. Would've been nice if the lightning would just strike that carrotwood tree and destroy it for you, and nothing else! LOL. Sounds like a problem tree that needs Godly intervention. LOL. I'm glad your little palms are growing and happy. At least that is some compensation for the one tree that you don't want to grow that keeps growing. There must be some kind of antidote for it. Maybe pour some bleach on it, right down on the roots. I don't know. I'm better at killing plants than growing them, so all I have to do is look at them and they die. LOL. Take care my friend. Maybe show it my picture?????
How scary for you!!
Our nemesis is the Trumpet Vine...hard to get rid of and it chokes trees and plants alike, as well as, tears down fences!
hugs
Donna
Glad y'all are OK. Lightning can be devastating and unnerving. I try to always pray and ask the good God who created us all to have mercy and keep us all safe. He is so good to add His protection to all these events.
We've been experiencing lots of afternoon rain as well. It's so nice. Our area in SE Georgia had a doozy of a storm last night but it mostly tore up the open areas (we are heavily wooded here in the country - we're sheltered). When I was a tot in the 50s-70s living in Titusville, Florida afternoon storms and hurricanes were normal weather. No one I knew had to use a sprinkler or yard irrigation to keep the grass green. Then the long, drawn-out drought hit. Now it seems the South is getting back into normal weather patterns again. I pray the rain and His mercy continues. We need a great deal of both. 💙
That storm would've scared the bejesus outta me, too! I don't know what's going on with the nation's crazy weather patterns and natural disasters ... makes me want to hide under the bed with my girls.
There's some vine-thingie that looks similar growing out of our hedges out back -- and along the neighbor's fence line -- actually sticking through two of the wood planks. I'm going to check this link.
Oh, my goodness that is A LOT of thunder - I would have been scared about it hitting the house too.
I wonder if your neighbors know that you get their treasures??? I think is so cool - you rescue the plants, and they do well.
So is that carrot thing a weed or tree?
sandie
That is something that you can't kill that tree. So glad your palms are doing well. Wow, that was a lot of rain in 30 minutes. I can't believe it was another record for flashes. Thankful you guys were okay.
Great thankfuls Sandra.
The age old question why do unNeeded volunteers feel the need to sprout up and thrive.
Hugs Cecilia
Your palms really are thriving. Amazing what some rain will do.
Those are really some thunder-bumpers over your home. Glad you didn't have a heart attack and kudos to your newish roof holding up for you.
Be safe in this new season of the hurricane.
(((hugs)))
Sue
A palm rose up from a spot in my flower garden. That thing grew like crazy. Ultimately we had to dig it out. Its roots were heading to the sidewalk.
I ‘m so glad you are safe! I would be terrified. ❤️
It's amazing how fast weeds can take hold!
What beautiful thankfuls today...yay for rain, and we hope you keep getting it. But BOO for all that lightning and thunder!
Those palms do look so nice. We've had our share of thunderboomers too but most were around us and not directly on top of us. Good thankfuls and thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
Too bad about the carrot wood. Those were real pretty photos of the palms with the water droplets on them. Glad you were okay in the storm.
Hooray for surviving that storm! May you be the victor in the battle of invasive plants. Hubby doesn't want to cut down any growing green stuff. But a day of reckoning is on the way!!
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