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Spring wildflowers in the Northern Woods blooming now. Top to bottom: Trout Lily, Dwarf Ginseng, Columbine, Starflower, Purple Trillium, Jack in the Pulpit.
Thanks. I love taking photos of these beauties. I have a field guide to wildflowers put out by the Audubon Society. When I can't retrieve the names there, I search on the internet. I'm determined to learn the names. I'm documenting when they bloom this year and will compare them in the future. Gives me something to do in my unemployment hours. Thanks again.
Sheba..how very lovely. Are these all blooming there now? I also just did a wildflower post for us in Minnesota, I have got them mixed up, of course, as to bloom times. Trillium are blooming mostly now. Enjoyed. We ahve 80 acres north of the cities, could do the flowers justice if I lived there, hope to one day. Thanks for sharing.
I grew up in Northern Illinois, on a block of new homes butting against an old woods. We loved to stomp the woods in spring and see these: dogtooth violet, red and white trilliums, may apples, etc.
I remember when they sold the woods for houses, my mom and dad crept in with shovels and brown grocery bags and dug up what they could. I remember my dad telling me not to tell anyone because by then trilium was protected and could not be dug up - only built over!
Gorgeous photos. Enjoy your wildflowers - I sure did.
I grew up in Northern Illinois, on a block of new homes butting against an old woods. We loved to stomp the woods in spring and see these: dogtooth violet, red and white trilliums, may apples, etc.
I remember when they sold the woods for houses, my mom and dad crept in with shovels and brown grocery bags and dug up what they could. I remember my dad telling me not to tell anyone because by then trilium was protected and could not be dug up - only built over!
Gorgeous photos. Enjoy your wildflowers - I sure did.
Just beautiful. The only one I recognized is Jack in the pulpit and that's sadly from another picture many years ago. Have never seen this in real life.
Sheba, You and I think about the same things in the spring. Last year, I, too, went for a walk in the woods near my house to see the spring wildflowers. I love that I can tell the month by what's blooming, and slowly, I've learned the names. http://open.salon.com/blog/fingerlakeswanderer/2009/05/04/windfall_a_photo_essay The only think I don't see are May Apples. Do you get them where you are?
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I remember when they sold the woods for houses, my mom and dad crept in with shovels and brown grocery bags and dug up what they could. I remember my dad telling me not to tell anyone because by then trilium was protected and could not be dug up - only built over!
Gorgeous photos. Enjoy your wildflowers - I sure did.
I remember when they sold the woods for houses, my mom and dad crept in with shovels and brown grocery bags and dug up what they could. I remember my dad telling me not to tell anyone because by then trilium was protected and could not be dug up - only built over!
Gorgeous photos. Enjoy your wildflowers - I sure did.
You and I think about the same things in the spring. Last year, I, too, went for a walk in the woods near my house to see the spring wildflowers. I love that I can tell the month by what's blooming, and slowly, I've learned the names.
http://open.salon.com/blog/fingerlakeswanderer/2009/05/04/windfall_a_photo_essay
The only think I don't see are May Apples. Do you get them where you are?