Dame’s Rocket, 2010
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Sadly, the patch of dame’s rocket I photographed a couple of years ago was destroyed last year to make way for an apartment complex. On the other side of the street, where more dame’s rocket was growing, the land was plowed under for a pumpkin crop.
The patch on the side of the street with the apartments looks to be gone forever. I’ll have to wait until this coming spring to see if any of the dame’s rocket survived on the pumpkin side.
UPDATE: It’s May 2012, and the fate of the dame’s rocket is much better than I’d feared. Some of the flowers were destroyed on the side of the street where pumpkins were planted, but many of them remain. On the other side of the street, construction of a new access road revealed an abundance of dame’s rocket still thriving in the thickly wooded area behind the apartment complex.
The patch on the side of the street with the apartments looks to be gone forever. I’ll have to wait until this coming spring to see if any of the dame’s rocket survived on the pumpkin side.
UPDATE: It’s May 2012, and the fate of the dame’s rocket is much better than I’d feared. Some of the flowers were destroyed on the side of the street where pumpkins were planted, but many of them remain. On the other side of the street, construction of a new access road revealed an abundance of dame’s rocket still thriving in the thickly wooded area behind the apartment complex.
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