2012/05/01

Smoke

I can smell wood smoke in the midnight air, sitting on the porch.  It has been very dry.  I don't like to water, but I did today, as the ferns under the camphor tree on the front lawn were looking singed..  My Lilies of the Nile have put out few flowers this spring.

2 comments:

Jules Aimé said...

You may think this crazy, but from Canada your post today is like reading something from an exotic foreign land, like a peep into Ali Baba's cave.

The only way I could grow a camphor tree would be in a (very large) greenhouse.

Brett said...

Camphor trees are not often found here, but where they are planted they thrive. My property had several large ones when I bought it.

They are attractive shade trees. The robins feast on the berries in winter. But they also drop a lot of debris, leaves and sticks, and seedlings must be vigilantly uprooted.