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Geranium maculatum have delicate light pink flowers with slightly darker pink streaks and vaguely star-shaped green leaves. This photo features a few of the purtly li'l flowers, a few rocks and a rosette from a Lactuca floridana that shall not survive the weekend.
Iris cristata: they look like delicate miniature iris, but they are tough buggers. Two or maybe three cultivars here (bugger me if I can remember the names - or just bugger me, whatever), one white and two purple. The purple I think are two cultivars because some of the flowers are a lavender-purple and some a re a little more intense. They have little white "flags" (the white ones have yellow spots in the same place).
Camassia leichtlinii (I think "Blue Danube") have spikes of delicate, star-shaped lavender flowers that have long stamens with little white blobbins at the end. They're beautiful.
More #springtime 🌸flowers🌸!
1) Geranium maculatum
2) Iris cristata (I have a lot of these around)
3) Camassia leichtlinii (native, though not to 'round here - the local camassia species aren't quite ready yet)
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Trillium grandiflorum: Three petals, three sepals (sepals are green on these, so they do resemble leaves), three leaves. These bloom white but often go pink over time: this one is streaked with pink, which is setting off its yellow stamens. Also visible: last year's leaves from the big oak in the parkway, and some grasslike leaves from (I *think* - it's not flowering) a Claytonia virginica.
Halesia tetraptera: beautiful, small-ish trees (this one's barely more than a sapling). This one blooms heavily in the spring with bell-shaped white flowers. They strongly resemble blueberry flowers.
Iris cristata: low-growing native iris that spread and are the junkyard dog of the iris family. They have beautiful pale violet flowers with darker eyes with a yellow dot that float gently above green leaves that persist well into winder. I love them and have a perhaps unwise quantity scattered about the garden.
Not a *big* gardening day, mostly was devoted attacking the many, many, many progeny of the Lactuca floridana that I let go to seed last year (to my neighbors: sorry/not sorry). 🌱
1) Trillium grandiflorum
2) Halesia tetraptera
3) Iris cristata
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Dainty little daffodanwdilly emerging from the grass. It's a cultivar with an acid yellow cup and cream throws that pull back. On the smaller end, maybe 6" - 8" tall. But tough as nobody's business.
Viola sororia var. priceana: it's a common wood violet (native), but its petals are white-lavender, fading to more icy lavender in the center. At the bottom right you can see the leaves, but not flower (not yet! it's on the way) of an Erythronium "White Beauty."
Narcissus (cannot, and will not try to, remember the cultivar), and Viola sororia var. priceana.
SPRING!
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Emerging leaves and a few remaining flowers on one of the little haskap shrubs in the backyard. Got two (!) little fruits last year after the buggers got transplanted from an imperfect site, hoping for an actual harvest (4? 6?) this year.
The backyard: Hoping for haskaps, spring 2025.
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'Tis the season for early spring bulbs: Iris & Crocus, Chionodoxa and Scilla.
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I'm the kind of guy who's lucky enough to have both cats and catkins 'round this time of year.
(Corylus americana: s/he's still acclimating to our little garden)
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A lonely snowdrop in a field of early-spring grass. Snowdrops are delicate white flowers that sit at the end of a gracefully curved stem, usually nodding to face the ground. They grace the early spring garden, evanescent as the snow for which they are named.
I'm not a galanthophile, but I do marvel at their combination of delicacy, grace and incredible hardiness.
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