Over the last week or so, I’ve been able to get out –
between rain showers – to look for and at the things growing in my yard. Mainly I’ve got a host of golden dandelions –
with apologies to Wordsworth.
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| Dandelions along the Driveway. |
Followed by white.
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| Strawberries - There are both wild and cultivated. |
Followed by blue.
Purple
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| Violets and Dandelions. |
The reddish and pinks seem to be represented by cultivated
flowers. The bleeding hearts are not
open yet, nor are the chives. You have
to look really hard in this picture to see the flowers on the chives to the
right of the bleeding hearts. Hopefully
in a few more days they will open more…
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| Bleeding Hearts on the Left, Chives on the Right. |
Then there are the things that are promising to bloom, but
haven’t shown any color yet.
When you put them all together, you get something that looks
like this:
Or this, that continues into my neighbor’s property.
Then there are the “non-flowers.” The first might be a tree gall, although the twig it is on is very small. So perhaps it is the start of a wasp nest? The second is a fungus of some sort. It does not appear to have a stem, so cannot be sure - but it is not a rock...
I think the last picture is a puffball. There are no poisonous puffballs, I have heard. (Check with an expert, though.) You slice them and fry them in butter. Then you have fried butter flavored sponges. Mmmmm. Worth doing once so you can say, "Been there, done that."
ReplyDeleteYou also have forget-me-nots (the little blue flower).
I think the pink/blue flowers may be Virginia Bluebells.
I think the one you are calling bleeding heart is really columbine. (Picture 12).
Mom used to call the pansy-like flowers "Johnny-Jump-Ups".
Thanks! Columbine is a local flower, so would expect it to do well up here, but it is a clearly defined planting, not a natural seeding. Will take more pictures as it opens up.
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