Sweet Marjoram

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| 03 Aug 2010 05:25 AM |
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Chris, I know this is one place I can find you.. This doesn't really need a reply, just wanted to say I watched a program on PBS about the Clemson Forest. Hey, that is certainly an interesting place. I hope to see the next segment of that on Saturday night. Marge
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That Compost Guy

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| 03 Aug 2010 07:28 AM |
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What did they say about it? |
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Sweet Marjoram

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| 04 Aug 2010 04:39 AM |
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It was a "guided tour" sort of thing. The show I was watching dealt with the different wildflowers growing there-pointing out how many different species were in such and such size space. What wonderful trilliums! This was the first I knew that Carolina Spice (Sweet Shrub) is considered a wildflower. I, and almost everyone I know, has that in the yard. I hope I get to see the next segment. Some of these stations like to change their programming without notice, or sometimes weather keeps me from receiving them. Marge
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That Compost Guy

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| 04 Aug 2010 06:38 AM |
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Sounds like "Expeditions with Patrick McMillan". I haven't seen him walk through the Clemson Forest before, but I haven't seen every show either. We used to go fishing on a lake that borders the forest. And there's a dirt/gravel road that goes straight through part of it. Hiking/bike/horse trails all over the place. One of our neighbors growing up is one of the folks that help manage it. Really pretty neat. I like driving out there when I want to get away from everything. He went up into what's called the Jocassee Gorges and found some wildflowers that only exist right there. And went out to Wilmington, NC and found a grove where Venus Flytraps live in the wild. The only place in the world they still live in the wild. It's an interesting show if that's what it was. I grew up in the woods, not the Clemson Experimental Forest, so we used to go for long walks and I can appreciate the Clemson Forest more because of it. I learned about pine stumps for fire starters and my brother and I went on a rampage collecting them using an old car jack to pull them out. Mom showed us the "pig's ears" that grow and have tiny flowers next to the ground under all the leaves. Turns out they are gingers of some sort, I think. I never figured out how minnows get into a creek in the middle of nowhere and survive. Or crawdads either. We'd push over dead trees. Find wild blueberries. Wild muscadines. Lots of fun. |
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Sweet Marjoram

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| 05 Aug 2010 05:05 AM |
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I sort of came in on that program after it was underway, flipping channels, so I didn't catch the fella's name. But that sounds like what I was watching. He did say some of the wildflowers he was pointing out only grow in that particular area. He was explaining how the whole thing came to exist.
I don't know how the minnows and other aquatic life get to the middle of nowhere either. Like if you dig a pond, away from streams, suddenly there are fish in it. It seems like you had a great place to play. I would be visiting Clemson Forest as often as possible if I lived near there. Quite the Getaway. Marge
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| 05 Aug 2010 07:33 PM |
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Water birds carry fish from one pond/lake/stream on their feet and "plant" them in the next pond they visit.... and viola! a new pond now has fish in it when they hatch --- or so the wild life department man told me. |
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josette

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| 06 Aug 2010 03:07 PM |
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those water birds need to return the fish they took from my pond! All four dissappeared..... |
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Sweet Marjoram

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| 07 Aug 2010 05:24 AM |
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You may have something more fun than fish. maybe you have an Otter? Marge
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