madgardener wrote:
Bill that looks like Fairy Holler a couple of weeks ago. Were you almost
deafened by the sounds of their "machinery"? And the DAMAGE............my
poor trees, shrubs....oy vey!! (sounds of my gnashing teeth and wringing
hands) but Mom's Nature has a wicked sense of humor and a plan. The female's
slicing and laying of 600 eggs in 24 clutches has effectively pruned the
ends of every tree and shrub in the area affected here in Southeastern
Tennessee. You can look upwards and see the dead twigs and leaves on ALL the
trees around me. My crape myrtles, beauty berry, Cornelian cherry, Yoshino
cherry, Kousa dogwood, dogwood,Vitex and Althea are all decimated and sliced
to horrible proportions. I am pruning the Vitex severely and sacrificing
what few blossoms would have been here after the carnage. Your pictures
were dead on. I couldn't load the last three on the first page, but the first
mass of them was exactly what I had too for WEEKS

maddie up in Fairy Holler

Maddie,

The Cicadas are just starting to do their damage around
here. Some of the neighbors have quite a bit of damage to
their new shrubs. I'll take a few picture and post them on
my web site.

P.S. The reason that you could not load some pictures this
afternoon was because I was working on my web site (It
rained all day so I couldn't work in the garden). They
should all load O.K. now and for anyone that wants to see
what Cicadas look like the link is:
http://members.iglou.com/brosen/cpage1.htm

--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

Digital Camera: HP PhotoSmart 850

For pictures of my garden flowers visit
http://members.iglou.com/brosen

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