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I just came by the pond and the bees have completely covered up the purple pickerel weed blooms growing along the edge of the water. If you have damp areas with sun, particularly pond edges, it's easy to grow and makes a pretty border plant. Mine are two years old and probably 5 or 6 feet across now. You can find them on Ebay most of the time.
Look for the black bee in #6
http://www.myoldtools.com/pictures/pickerel1.jpg
http://www.myoldtools.com/pictures/pickerel2.jpg
http://www.myoldtools.com/pictures/pickerel3.jpg
http://www.myoldtools.com/pictures/pickerel5.jpg
http://www.myoldtools.com/pictures/pickerel6.jpg
http://www.myoldtools.com/pictures/pickerel7.jpg
sc-bee
05-22-2005, 06:35 PM
Great pictures Ross. Looking to buy a camera soon. Want to throw in a plug for it? How do your prints turn out?
dickm
05-22-2005, 06:56 PM
Thats not purple loostrife?
Dickm
This camera is a Canon 20D SLR. I was using a Canon 100mm Macro USM lense. It's 8.1 Mpixels. Unless you're into photography, it's probably not the camera for you. I use it as my underwater photo camera with a housing as well. It will print up to 17x24 without much problem. It also allows for a lot of cropping without losing much resolution.
Definitely not loosrtife. This is a native plant.
BULLSEYE BILL
05-23-2005, 10:26 PM
Wow.
Number 5 belongs on the cover of a Mann Lake Catalog! They are all great smile.gif Thanks for sharing.
I sure miss my watergarden :(
danno1800
05-24-2005, 02:55 PM
Great pictures! Thanks for posting them.