Thank you everyone for sharing your plants and fallishness. The winner is.... Cheryl M! I have contacted her and await her response.
She wins a skein in the color of her choice of Yummy 2-ply Sock yarn and a Martina Behm pattern in Miss Winkle!
Also, I forgot to include this picture in my blog post the other day. I saw this shrubby plant on the edge of our driveway and have never noticed it before. What the heck is it??
The balls are made up of very pointy points/things. What is it and how/who could ever eat the fruit?? As in what animals? Or is it a way to keep anything from eating them? I would love for someone to tell me what it is.
Have a wonderful Labor Day!
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Is it a pawpaw?
Chestnut (I have 2 in my yard). It has been a good year with all of the rain and the chestnuts should be big this year.
Sweet gum, I’m thinking. I believe it takes a male and a female tree to make these, so be in the lookout for another tree with similar leaves. They can be a pain to pick up. Very prickly.
Chinese chestnut – the American chestnut is afflicted with a blight and currently does not grow to produce fruit. It is being back-crossed with Chinese varieties to produce a blight resistant tree. Bet you wish you had never asked…
I think it might be a hickory tree. They are common in Tennessee. The pods are the outer covering of the nuts.
Definitely a chestnut. I googled chestnut tree photos and there it was.
I think it might be a hickory tree. They are common in Tennessee. The pods are the outer covering of the nuts.
It is a sweet gum tree. They are usually found in the South. Gather the seed pods and push them into a styrofoam cone and make a beautiful Christmas tree for your table.
From the picture, it looks like a chestnut/chinkapin (Castanea species, Beech family). You can harvest in the fall and get to the nuts by separating the burr.
It looks like a chestnut of some kind,inside the prickly cases will be the chestnuts