I will update this page as we go and leave it as a separate page for easy referral. You can get a bit more information concerning the origin of this experiment by looking at the April 28th, 2016 post.
Here is my progression of pictures and occasional comments.
April 28th, 2016
April 30th, 2016
May 8th, 2016
The blossoms are starting to drop. When the wind blows, one might think it is snowing...but just in our yard.
May 12th, 2016
May 15th, 2016
I counted the little pods that are developing on this stem and there are at least 20.
May 26th, 2016
The little pods fall off the stems of these former flowers in quite a great number. I raked the garden yesterday and the ground is already covered with hundreds more pods.
May 29th, 2016
June 3rd, 2016
June 9th, 2016
By now, most of the little pods have fallen off and they are all over the lawn. The remaining pods are growing larger. It won't be long now before the front yard is a danger zone, with these things at full size and falling haphazardly everywhere you decide to walk.
July 24th, 2016
All the leaves on this branch are dying off. I find it interesting and incredibly lucky that I picked a stem that is still holding the pods. Many of them have fallen away already. That's a good thing as the more that fall off now means that many less that will be aiming for me when they start to fall in the Fall. And the fewer there are, the fewer to clean up.
I counted the little pods that are developing on this stem and there are at least 20.
The little pods fall off the stems of these former flowers in quite a great number. I raked the garden yesterday and the ground is already covered with hundreds more pods.
By now, most of the little pods have fallen off and they are all over the lawn. The remaining pods are growing larger. It won't be long now before the front yard is a danger zone, with these things at full size and falling haphazardly everywhere you decide to walk.
All the leaves on this branch are dying off. I find it interesting and incredibly lucky that I picked a stem that is still holding the pods. Many of them have fallen away already. That's a good thing as the more that fall off now means that many less that will be aiming for me when they start to fall in the Fall. And the fewer there are, the fewer to clean up.
August 11th, 2016
Finally the leaves have all fallen away from this set of pods. That is not the case around the rest of the tree. There are still lots of leaves, even around other pods. I'm not sure why these leaves have decided to shrivel up and go away.
