Here are some flowers that are in bloom for Mother’s Day:
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!
May 11, 2014
Here are some flowers that are in bloom for Mother’s Day:
May 2, 2013
Even though this blog is mostly about nature, I sometimes take a tangent. Sometimes for a while. It has been a little while since I’ve done any nature posts, so today I hope to set things right.
I took a lap around my property today and was surprised to see so many plants in bloom.
First up was goldthread.
I turned off my trail to look for some ferns, but instead found this:
I went looking for this one too:
I was in the middle of my woods looking for some trillium when I found this.
This is one of my very favorites (though I say that about several plants).
Finally, there’s the dwarf ginseng.
April 15, 2010
Today I noticed several plants in bloom that I hadn’t seen yet this season. Some of them are kinda early too, so I was really not expecting to see them in bloom yet. The first one was Azure Bluet (Houstonia caerulea). I didn’t get a picture of this because I just barely caught it out of the corner of my eye while Jonathan and I were driving home. It was in a spot where I didn’t know it to grow too. I wasn’t 100% sure that’s what it was, but another mile or so up the road is a place where it has grown pretty thickly the past two years. I figured if that field looked the same, then that must be it. As we came upon it, there it was. I didn’t get a picture though. Moving car plus tiny flowers equals bad photography. Last year it didn’t bloom until April 27, so it’s 12 days early (as compared to then).
When I got home, I went walking around the property. I was astounded to find the blueberries in bloom:
I turned around and almost stepped on this specimen:
I walked on and saw this:
I made my way into the woods then and took lotsa photos of trailing arbutus, but most of those have fading blossoms now (and I have already posted good pics of those in the past couple of weeks). But I was not expecting to see this:
Not far from the ginseng I started looking for some Goldthread. I had spotted its leaves here the other day (and indeed, I saw several before the snow was melted). Then I found one which had sent up a stem and had an unopened flower bud on it. I took some photos, and then not five feet away, I found one that had opened:
The last new bloom I spotted today was this one, and again, it wasn’t expected:
I had also taken shots of birch, cherry, sugar maple, box elder (which is a type of maple) and crab apple in Concord today at lunchtime. Those have been in bloom for about a week I guess. But I have posted enough photos for one day!