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The Barn-Swallows have left for their trip to Capistrano...The Monarch Butterflies are starting their migration...I am starting to see a few on my Yellow Crownsbeard plants...The Y.C. is one of those plants which still have nectar this time of year...Acts as a Quickstop for the migrating butterflies...It is easy to grow...If you need seed for next year...Contact me...Latin name is Verbesina encelioides...

My Unk Leo Troyer, use to get back at all of the junk mail he would get by sealing the enclosed envelopes with postage-free written on them and stick them back in the mail...

Can you imagine the thousands or even millions of dollars of revenue this could generate???

I get from 5 to 10 credit card apps a week...That's $3 to $6 per week as a minimum for me alone...

It is a 1948 Allis-Chalmers, Model WC, Serial #WC 170937...

I am going to get my tractor running again, hopefully by April 24, for the Hennessey, Oklahoma, Oldies Tractor Parade and Tractor Rodeo...My Dad purchased it so I would have a tractor to drive, when I was 14...I could plow acre an hour...With a two bottom plow...I never was any good at plowing the corners...

Go to my picture gallery to see beginning photo...

Latin name...Lippia nodiflora...Waterfall/ Oklahoma it's Phyla incisa...

Good nectar plant for many butterflies and bees...

such as:   Tropical Checkered Skipper ...

Lantana Scrub-Hairstreak...

Crescents...

Small Skippers...

Blues...

Metalmarks...

Common larval food for:     White Peacock Butterfly...

Phaon Crescent Butterfly...

Buckeye Butterfly...

Seeds for birds:       Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)...

assorted songbirds...

We are always looking for beneficial plants, which will grow in shaded areas...it will also grow in full sun...

American Germander (Teucrium canadense)...also called wood sage...part of the mint family, Lamiaceae,is such a plant...

This native wildflower is a summer blooming,  perennial forb/herb with conspicuous cream to pink or purple flowers...It is adapted to medium to fine textured soils ( part of mine is sandy ) and prefers moist soils...Seed is round and brown...Where I hand-harvested seed, the plants were 1' to 3' tall...