Hawk ID, please! Chapel Hill, NC
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Comments (15)Swapna, yes, some guavas grow here, but not true ones. But they can be grown as (big) houseplants. Pineapple guavas are hardy here. There are lots of pomegranates that grow & fruit here. Just go by the zone listed and you'll be fine. They take a few years to get established before they will fruit successfully but you'll likely see blooms before that as they can bloom all summer but really only set viable fruit on the first blooms (which sometimes gets frozen). Nana is the one exception, since the fruits are small it'll set as late as midsummer. But they are SOUR! :)...See Morewhere are you? NC
Comments (150)I live in a beautiful 160-year-old home in historic Warrenton, NC, an hour north of Raleigh. It's a Greek Revival & Italianate southern antebellum home by renowned architect Jacob Holt. I cherish every inch inside and out! The grounds are covered with enormous oaks and pecans. I'm originally from northern Virginia/Maryland (DC, Stafford, Quantico). I lived most of my life in Havelock, NC and New Bern, NC. Spent alot of time at the beach. Then I moved to the city ~ Greensboro, NC for eight years. Great thread! Caroline...See MoreCan You Scare a Hawk Away?
Comments (178)cheryllynn744: (The thread that will never end :-) Your question is what started this thread, lo, those many years ago. Best thing I've been able to do is to use one of those New Year's noise-makers that you crank that makes an ungodly noise--something the hawk has not previously heard that will freak him/her out. I have a stuffed owl up in my back yard, and it might as well not be there. For me, it worked fine for a week, and every bird in the vicinity was stressed out and came to squawk at it from a safe distance, and some were bold enough to get quite close. Couple of Bluebirds flew right above it, and hovered (as Bluebirds will) for a few moments, checking it out. But unless you move the decoy almost daily, songbirds soon learn that it is no threat to them, and they won't pay any more attention to it. Been there for about a year, and most of its feathers are gone, but it still has the silouhette of an owl--to no avail. -------------------------------------------------------- Recent hawk episode for me involved a dove nesting in my window sill. Doves--like pigeons--are "ledge nesters", and sometimes only place a few sticks on a ledge to keep the (2) eggs from rolling away. My dove built a little more elaborate nest, with lots of sticks forming a nest between my double-hung window and double-hung storm window, about 4 inches apart. I had the storm window raised about 10 inches, quite by mistake, and a dove nested there last year (between the 2 windows) and fledged 2 baby doves. Success! Another dove used the same nest this year, and added sticks to it. Unfortunately, the dove began setting on eggs about March 4th, where there were no leaves on the trees (yet) in my area, and the dove was more visible than last year. One morning about 2 weeks ago, I heard a THUMP on the window about daylight, and I opened the curtain and looked out. The dove was gone, the 2 white eggs were exposed in the nest, and a Peregrine Falcon was sitting on a tree limb outside the window, no more than 3 or 4 feet away. The Falcon saw me through the window pane, and flew off. The dove stayed away the rest of the day, and did not come back and begin setting on the eggs (again) until the next day. I thought it was rather remarkable that it even returned, after being attacked by a hawk (falcon). I had no idea how it survived the attack, since it seemed more-or-less trapped there, inside the two windows. But the THUMP sounded like the falcon hitting the window, so somehow, it slipped away. Maybe the falcon tried to attack from above, and hit the glass above the dove. I had an idea the falcon would come back and try again and sure enough, about 4 days later, another WHUMP on the window. Same result--I looked out, the dove was gone, the eggs were exposed, and the Peregrine Falcon was 3 or 4 feet away on a tree branch. But this time, I had gotten my crank, New Year's noise-maker out of the closet and had it on my dresser. I grabbed it, and ran up the hall and opened the front door as quietly as I could. The falcon was still sitting in the tree, and I eased out and cranked-out a bunch of raucous noise while running toward the tree, and the falcon freaked out and flew out of the tree. Unbelievable that the dove returned AGAIN, only a few hours later, and began setting on its eggs again, the very same day, after (somehow) surviving the second strike by the Peregrine Falcon!! Again, it sounded like the falcon hit the glass above the dove. The falcon did not return, and the dove continued setting for about 3 or 4 more days. Then one morning I heard noise in the window, and I peeped out to see the dove turning the eggs over beneath it, and it appeared to be examining them. Soon after, it flew away, and left the nest and the eggs, and did not return. After the dove did not come back many days later, it was obvious the dove had abandoned the nest, and I raised the window and got the 2 eggs out, and put them in my basement. I have an idea what I will find when I crack them open; I think I'll find 2 babies that were nearly ready to hatch until the dove flew away after the first falcon strike and stayed away for more than a day. I believe the eggs may have got too cold that night she was away, and the babies inside probably froze--or otherwise died wiithout their mother there to keep them warm. Shame that she spent weeks there, only to have it end that way. But amazing that she had the resolve to return after 2 falcon attacks and continue to TRY and hatch the eggs. And more amazing that she escaped with her own life. wt...See MoreWhere to buy peony plants in NC
Comments (4)Hi Laurie! The American Peony Society has a link that shows peony sellers in most states, I'd start there if you want to buy local. I know here in CO the only time any are in stock at nurseries is in the spring--everyone wants instant gratification and it's hard to sell a potted plant that's quickly going into dormancy. You might want to look online, there are several reputable peony growers who have websites and ship bareroot peonies in the fall. I have no reservations about recommending a bunch--you can't go wrong ordering from any of these companies. Some that I've ordered from in the past (and am ordering from this year!) are: http://finagardenspeonies.com/ Fina has sent the biggest roots I've ever seen from a US peony grower for the last 3 years. Almost everyone guarantees a 3-5 eye division, Fina routinely sends 10 or more eyes. If you're new to peonies the eyes are like the eyes on an old potato and is where the stems will grow from the next spring. I really don't know if planting these bigger roots guarantees a bigger plant in the spring, my experience says no, but you could easily divide most of Fina's roots to have 2-3 plants next spring. http://www.hiddenspringsflowerfarm.com/ http://www.hollingsworthpeonies.com/ Hollingsworth is one of my personal favorites although at least 1 forum member had a very bad experience with them last fall. If you order several from them they tend to throw in a bonus root. Don't know what that magic number is but last year I ordered enough to get a free Itoh Garden Treasure root from them! http://www.songsparrow.com/catalog/shoppingcart.cfm?pagetype=viewcart Klehm's Song Sparrow always has the most unusual blooming peonies of all of the growers. Klehm hybridized a lot of the "cactus dahlia" bloom style peonies. http://www.adpeonies.com/peonies A&D have the absolute nicest customer service that I've experienced. They also send a bonus root with a large order. http://peonyparadise.com/ Carol Adelman is one of the nicest ladies! She responds personally to a lot of the questions emailed to them--a great resource for anyone new to growing peonies. http://www.gilberthwild.com/ Gilbert Wild has the best bareroot prices out of all of the website peony grower/sellers that I've found. They have had a reputation in the past of sending mis-labeled roots, though. I love them, order from them every year, but I label all of them just in case! http://www.brooksgardens.com/ Brooks has some really good prices on a lot of their peonies this year. And the last I'll mention, having a problem calling up the site to get a web address, is Select Plus Peonies. They're actually in Canada but have a decent shipping price and sell Itohs that you can't find anywhere in the US. Sorry, I know this isn't what you asked for! Unless you are near a grower (I personally don't know of any in NC but there could easily be) you most likely won't be able to find healthy peonies this late in the year. The exception would be I saw several forum members post about getting healthy and really good priced Itohs at Lowes or Home Depot. Neither carried them in my area, sadly, and it has been a few weeks so they're probably all gone anyway....See MoreOlychick
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