The wild roses are beginning to bud and soon the rosy pink blossoms will be attracting bees.
Wild Rose Bud
Picture of the Day for May 28, 2024
Normally it is hard to photograph the Nodding Trilliums since the blossom hangs underneath, but on a very windy day, the leaves were blowing upwards so the bloom was exposed.
Nodding Trillium Blossom Seen
Picture of the Day for May 20, 2024
The poor little wood anemones need sunshine for their blossoms to open and that has been hard to get with all the rainy days.
Sunlight for Wood Anemones
Picture of the Day for May 18, 2024
The different varieties of spring wildflowers are continue to appear after a late start. The wild geranium, which has other names including cranesbill, are displaying their rose-pink-lavender colors in the woods and road ditches. The name cranesbill comes from after the plant is done blooming and the fruit capsule with five basal cells and a long central beak-like column like a crane’s head.
Wild Geranium Pretty Blossoms
Picture of the Day for May 13, 2024
During the heavy rains, the marsh marigolds should have been renamed lake marigolds or river marigolds, but after a few drier days, the yellow blooms in the ditches back to more normal conditions.
Marsh Marigolds Displaying Yellow
Picture of the Day for May 8, 2024
The Spring Beauty blossoms are popping up in my woods and I mowed around some patches on the farm lawn. These flowers close up at night and on cloudy days, so they like the sunshine like I do.
Spring Beauty Blossoms
Picture of the Day for May 3, 2024
This small Jack-in-the-pulpit is just opening up so its hood isn’t covering ‘Jack’ that well yet. Maybe it will unfurl more before tomorrow’s rain.
Emerging Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Picture of the Day for May 2, 2024
The Virginia Bluebells may have felt a bit blue today with all the rain that fell which had my pond overflowing. The buds start out pink and turn blue as the blossom opens up.
Pink to Blue Blossoms
Picture of the Day for May 1, 2024
The April showers last night left water sitting on top of the ground and my shoes got a little muddy walking on the trail in my woods, but the April showers did bring the May flowers. Today I saw wildflowers open that weren’t a few days ago. I found Jack-in-the-pulpit, Great White Trilliums, Wood Anemones, Virginia Bluebells, Marsh Marigolds, Wood Violets, Spring Beauties and the Yellow Trout Lily. Although I know the trout lily by one of its other common names, the yellow adder’s tongue. Whatever the name, the bright yellow helps to find the flower.
Yellow Adder’s Tongue
Picture of the Day for April 27, 2024
The white petals of the bloodroots stand out against the green grass in the ditches and against the fallen oak leaves in the woods. But the sap in the stems and roots is a reddish color and gives the plant its name.
Bloodroot Blossoms
