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Unusual trees ...

roselee z8b S.W. Texas

11 years ago

All these trees need are some red lights and green balls and they could pass for Texas Christmas trees. They're kinda' pretty as they are in an eerie sort of way ...
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They "were" growing next to my sister's house, but unfortunately never, ever watered plus shaded by oak trees. The Crape myrtles are now covered with ball moss and have retained a few of their seed pods from a couple of years ago.
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Oh well, beauty from ashes, and life goes on somewhere else ...

Happy holidays! :-)

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Comments (5)

PKponder TX Z7B
11 years ago
They are pretty with the moss. I can imagine them decorated too!
jblaschke
11 years ago
Are they dead for sure? Most crape myrtles are pretty durable and all of them around us have shed their leaves. That *is* an awful lot of ball moss, though...
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roselee z8b S.W. Texas
Original Author
11 years ago
You're right, I'm not sure they're dead. I can't remember if I saw green on them last summer or not. The seed pods may be from this year. Maybe with the recent rains they'll revive ... somewhat. They are certainly struggling -- that's for sure ... :-)
Lynn Marie
11 years ago
I've never seen ball moss before. It looks really cool! Thanks for the pic!
PKponder TX Z7B
11 years ago
LynneMarie, when we go to the coast, we start seeing ball moss around LaGrange and it's really visible and beautiful in Victoria! I love that part of Texas :-)

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