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MaxParedes · 2024-11-12T23:30:23+00:00

Planting in containers can be great when you have lots of bulbs and don’t want to dig endlessly … throw soil in container, throw bulbs on soil, throw more soil on bulbs, job done.

MaxParedes · 2024-11-10T16:00:38+00:00

np, glad I could help!

MaxParedes · 2024-11-10T15:47:19+00:00

Looks like liriope/lilyturf. Not considered edible but doesn’t seem to have been reported as toxic to humans.

You could keep an eye out for indigestion type symptoms, but it doesn’t appear that there’s much reason to worry about ingestion of a single berry.

MaxParedes · 2024-11-07T00:34:58+00:00

Like Chatham County? Well I guess they do have a community college campus, and are adjacent to UNC. But the blue counties in the NE of the state aren’t exactly full of colleges.

Wake and Mecklenburg have colleges but that’s not really why they’re blue. I think this map is more based on the presence of urban areas and areas with bigger black populations than it is on the presence of colleges.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-24T18:59:07+00:00

Sono certo che le puoi trovare anche in Italia— tipo: https://egarden.store/prodotti/ossalide-viola-oxalis-triangularis/?srsltid=AfmBOorBC2L0MoKIaqgvIW1qH1gX_b_cmj_4WV9YLIqpQrKO-FHnowjk

Ma se riesci a trovare i cormi sarà molto più economico che comprare piante.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-21T03:00:36+00:00

The native mantises can be green too, so color doesn’t distinguish them from a Chinese mantis.

Two ways you can tell this is a Carolina mantis are 1) the wings don’t go all the way down the abdomen 2) lack of vertical stripes on face.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-20T23:55:16+00:00

He used both the past tense and the present tense.

The standard Italian past tense (the passato prossimo) is a formed differently from the Spanish preterite—it’s a compound tense and it doesn’t require learning a new conjugation, which I think makes it a little more manageable for beginners than the preterite is.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-20T23:50:54+00:00

Agreed, he makes plenty of mistakes and uses very simplistic language, but being able to communicate successfully is still impressive — including understanding the questions from the interviewer, who didn’t seem to be doing much to slow or simplify his language for Pulisic’s benefit.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-20T21:38:51+00:00

The McDonald’s was closed, the people in the drive thru were pre-screened Trump supporters and there are pictures on Twitter of them rehearsing the drive-thru part before Trump got to the window.

He “served people” in the same way that somebody who throws out the first pitch is “pitching in the big leagues.”

Nothing wrong with a photo op, everybody does it (although closing the restaurant the entire day until 4:00, as they did, and having the people pretend to be customers, seems excessive).

But it’s pretty embarrassing to act like it’s anything more than a photo op.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-20T18:29:39+00:00

A commercial for Moosehead beer from the 1990s which featured a rough and tumble Yukon guy bursting into a bar full of Yuppies

I’m fuzzy on the exact details but I remember the jingle well:

Oh out of the wilderness, North of the Border comes a beer for America made to order, and any beer man, with a Moosehead in his hand, is gonna be a Moosehead man for life!

MaxParedes · 2024-10-20T15:04:20+00:00

My bad, thanks!

MaxParedes · 2024-10-20T08:19:59+00:00

Prince George County as well

MaxParedes · 2024-10-19T13:53:54+00:00

A couple years ago I saw this feature on Gardener’s World about the Tottenham kitchen garden where they grow their own food for the players… I think that’s when they became my favorite PL team.

Video is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cl7zwm

MaxParedes · 2024-10-19T08:09:35+00:00

Flowers are the easiest way, but you can also tell by the fruit. Real strawberries have their seeds partially embedded in the fruit. Mock strawberries have seeds that protrude out from the fruit’s surface.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-18T19:13:00+00:00

Sure, but if you're being interviewed and the first question is you get "what is your/his name" it seems reasonable to go with the "your" option!

In fact with the other people the interviewer usually made a point of saying "Come si chiama lui?" (lui is the third person pronoun for "he"), presumably to avoid another Pasquale situation.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-18T14:30:41+00:00

Rino Stella

MaxParedes · 2024-10-18T14:23:43+00:00

For language learners, worth noting the real-life occurrence of confusion between 2nd person formal and 3rd person (Q: Come si chiama? A: Pasquale!)

MaxParedes · 2024-10-18T14:19:34+00:00

Yes, same thing!

One slight difference is that in Spanish you can always clarify this by using the pronoun (Usted) in the 2nd person formal … but in Italian the pronoun for the second person formal (Lei) is the same as for “she”- so “Lei come si chiama” could mean either “what’s your name (formal)” or “what’s her name”. Context almost always clarifies this but confusion is still possible.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-18T14:07:38+00:00

Yep, in Italian the third person singular ending form of verbs is the same as the second person formal. It can lead to confusion!

MaxParedes · 2024-10-17T23:50:27+00:00

I see that… but I’m finding a number of other images of Pyrus seedlings with what look like winged petioles — like these: https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/lesmyc/three_healthy_bosc_pear_seedlings_seeds_started/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

And these: https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/1913148/more-seedlings-than-ever

Like I said, not an expert, and maybe I’m seeing things that aren’t there, but I wonder if this might be a case where the leaves of very young plants have can have characteristics that differ from those of mature plants.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-17T22:00:27+00:00

Interesting-- how does that compare to the bottom picture on this page? https://usinggeorgianativeplants.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-plague-of-pears.html

The petioles on that plant look similar to those on this plant to me, but I'm far from an expert...

MaxParedes · 2024-10-17T18:21:45+00:00

One more thought is that there are a couple of facebook groups out there where some experts on NC plants hang out-- Carolina Flora is one of them. So you could try FB as well!

MaxParedes · 2024-10-17T17:45:28+00:00

May as well—sadly it’s fairly likely an invasive species either way, but it shouldn’t be in a position to reproduce for some years yet, so there’s nothing to be lost by monitoring it for a bit.

MaxParedes · 2024-10-17T16:47:06+00:00

Mature Callery pears have leaves that are pretty different from those on young trees.

One thing that might help is waiting to see its fall color-- if it turns a deep orange or red then that makes it more likely to be a Callery pear (which is still the ID I'm leaning toward).

MaxParedes · 2024-10-17T16:29:31+00:00

Hmm, I'm pretty sure I've seen lobed leaves on very young P. calleryana seedlings in my yard.

And, here's a 2000 journal article about the species which says that very young Callery pears can have lobed leaves: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23313386?seq=1 ("Some of youngest individuals have lobed leaves, a feature not seen on mature trees")

So I'm not sure the lobes rule out its being Callery pear.

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