Good Fence Thursday -Schefflera Tree

                   Sun Painting the leaves of the Schefflera Tree over the Fence

I have expanded my skills, now I can actually forget what I am doing while I am doing it.  

I love being over 50  70, I learn something new every day and forget five  others... 

Found on Facebook and so ME

Joining TexWisGirl for Good Fence Thursday, stop over and check out this weeks fence fotos.

Schefflera Tree Alert! Deadly to Dogs

 Jake came out of the jungle with this odd looking stick in his mouth. It was covered in berries the size of blue berries and he was stripping them off with his teeth.

Warning if you have these trees, the leaves, pods, flowers and sticks are poison to Pets per the

For info click on link below

Pet Poison Help Line

Baby wandered over and started to eat the berries he stripped off. there were a ton of them, I threw a shovel of dirt over the ones on  the ground, took the stick and ran for Google..

The pods, the flowers, berries and all parts of it can be deadly to dogs.. I ran back outside and there was Baby, digging through the dirt eating them like candy. I got them all in the trash but later in the day she started flapping her ears severely, and acting strange...

at first we thought she had something in her ears and cleaned them out. It got worse.. Per the info on PetPoison site, that was caused by the berries.. Lucky for us, she had no foaming mouth or seizures and was better the next day.

we think that is because she passed them through that next morning because she did not chew but swallowed them whole.

Below is the flower blooming at tip top of tree and a squirrel eating the flowers before they turn to berries.

and no it did not harm the squirrels

Backyard Looking UP

I stood staring up at my favorite pine in our back yard jungle and decided to

show you what we see when looking up

Tuesday AM just before daylight, I was in the pool doing exercises and I heard a noise of something walking in the jungle growth....

I got out and flapped/popped the towel several times and a really really Big

went running up the pine  tree and out on that bottom left limb.

Raccoon photo from National Wildlife

Living in a jungle in the middle of the city, we still have wild life.

Avocado tree

Click here for former post on Loblolly Pine  or here for our amazing

 Avocado Tree that Bob planted from a seed.  if you visit, scroll down past todays post to see the old ones.

Fish tail palm, bamboo and schefflera tree

 the above trees cover 100 feet across the back yard

Below is part of the giant pine I was looking up into.

it is not dead, the needles are raining down on us now.

 I grabbed this aerial view of our house, you can see we are in an oasis surrounded by trees...Our Back and front yard are all jungle.

Schefflera

Our Schefflera Tree got so tall it is in the top of the pine tree. this is the red bloom it gets once a year. I had to zoom up about 30 feet to get it. so the details of the tiny red flowers can't be seen.  The below is the same photo that I monkeyed around with in Photoshop Elements 10.

Yes, Schefflera grow indoor and outdoor and just about any where at all, but if you plant them in Florida they make monster trees unless you keep them trimmed.

Monet I Ain't   but if you want to see what JAKE does with Schefflera CLICK HERE.