My solitary birthday
Rose Pekelnicky
3 days ago
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Comments (3)I'd recommend you'd let a local garden club or two know what you've got. The bird boxes appear to be along the same design style needed to attract blue birds. And the points you've made in this posting with reference to the solitary bees should be of interest to most gardeners too. Good luck....See MoreHyophorbe (Spindle palm)-solitary vs. clump.
Comments (8)Not all P. Roebelenii are clustering/ clumping in the wild. In their native habitat it is common to see both suckering/ clumping and solitary varieties. However it is MORE common to see them as suckering trees in their native habitat in Laos, but single trees are still not hard to find there. Note the photo from Laos below. Here is another great photo of some growing along the Mekong river as it appeared on the cover of one of the 1994 IPS publications called Princeps back then. Along rivers there they sometimes become rheophytes. Often, seeds collected from wild trees growing in their native habitat will sucker, but seeds collected from cultivated trees will not. To further complicate things, many of the ones you see planted as multiples in cultivation are in fact single trees planted together. This is why you can often cut out smaller plants at the base, and they will NOT grow back. This was the case with one of my P. Roebelenii's. If mine was one of the true suckering varieties, then it likely would have re-sprouted more suckers....See MoreAre my little solitary bees under attack?
Comments (2)Solitary Bees and wasps love to inhabit similar areas so this could be a fight for the habitat, another queen could have tried to make a nest there, or the queen could have dug the nest she made up. These factors all can be relevant but I would just try to watch the activity and it should fix itself. If another species is fighting for the area like wasps try removing the wasps. (caution be careful) GOOD LUCK!...See MoreHappy Birthday to my pal, to my pal, to my pal...
Comments (13)Happy Birthday Heather...you also share your birthday with my daughter...She is 38 today.... patti...See More
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
2 days ago
Wishing you a lovely birthday 😃And I noticed the OP is from 20 hours ago, yet this is first I'm seeing it - weird...
Rose Pekelnicky thanked carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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