
Just as in a horror film, there is danger lurking in the bushes: the interesting-looking structure below is a cedar-apple-rust gall with its 'telial horns', one of a number growing on a red cedar (Eastern Juniper) tree close to the orchard.


Setting up home in a new country is going to be challenging. A bit like trying to cook a meal in someone else's kitchen. Maybe. This is a record of my experiences as I pack up my old life in England and start a new one in Ontario, Canada, with the aim of becoming more self-sufficient.
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3 comments:
Wow. Great post--great pictures. (Great title.) I would have picked it on Blotanical, but picks seem to be down again--
What can be done about this particular horror?
Hiya Amanda,
No idea how I arrived here, but hello anyways ;-)
That growth does indeed look very pretty. A little like carrot shavings bundled together.
You have me worried now, and I daren't go out to inspect my own cedars for fear of finding something similar. (My life is one big chain of coincidences it seems, and I wouldn't be surprised if today of all days I'd find one too.)
Hope your apples come through ok.
(joco in the uk.)
Goodness, they sound horrible. Do you just have to chop them off then? Makes slugs seem almost sweet...:-)
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