Did a little potting-up of winter sowing today.
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Three nursery pots. The lower one has grass-like spring beauty leaves in it, and the upper two have what are maybe? Hopefully? Black cohosh.
A baby plant with a first true leaf that appears plausibly like black cohosh.
A baby plant that looks like it might be a spring beauty.
I think a couple of my double dormancy plants actually germinated 😯
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A black cherry tree with a web chock full of eastern tent caterpillars against a bright blue sky.
A tent caterpillar on a black cherry branch.
I 💚 tent caterpillars aka the most abundant and easy to find baby bird food there is
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A black chokeberry branch with several white flowers, mostly still closed. They are catching the light, especially a half-open one that looks like a little bowl. Some yellow Packera aurea is blooming in the blurry background.
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If these really are baby Geranium maculatum my mind is going to be blown in the best way.
Hat tip to @jbtheexplorer.bsky.social
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Violets good
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A very tiny swamp milkweed sprout next to last year's hollow stem.
A whole bunch of my swamp milkweed is starting to come up 🥹 they are all smol but this one might be cutest
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A wild ginger plant with its triangular flesh-purple flower at ground level. A fly perches on one of its leaves.
A small wild ginger plant among moss and forest floor detritus.
Wild ginger today
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A cluster of black chokeberry buds, round and white. Only one is starting to open, revealing pink stamens.
A large swath of Packera aurea. Only one in the foreground is blooming so far, a little yellow daisylike flower.
Courage and promise
When all your fellows are closed
You will open first
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More emerging. Truly something new every day
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A Le Conte's violet with elongated heart shaped leaves in a pavement crack.
A Phacelia purshii plant (Miami mist) in a bedraggled clear plastic container.
"Miami mist" barely legible in black sharpie on blue painter's tape, spattered with dirt.
Sometimes am uncommon violet species grows in a pavement crack and a cute annual finally sprouts over a year after you planted it. That's life, if one looks for it.
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A clump of nearly white bluets.
A clump of vivid sky blue bluets.
Bluet (Houstonia caerulea) color variation: almost white to vivid sky blue
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A white sharp-lobed Hepatica flower among grass and Packera aurea. Last year's mottled red leaf is to its left.
A wild ginger leaf, still partway folded up.
A couple treasured spring plants showed themselves in the yard today. 💚
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About a year later. Pretty native flowers, but warning that the lesser celandine and Japanese knotweed of it all may be dispiriting.
🌈✨ just anthropocene things ✨🌈
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Spring is springing for real
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Similarly, very tiny blue vervain.
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White, 5-petaled serviceberry flowers in bloom.
A few rosettes of pussytoes on scruffy ground.
The sun shining through pink and green hillside blueberry leaves.
Checked out the woods today, no pink things blooming yet.
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case in point, I "AHA!!"'d today when I saw ...
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The Mayapple Umbrella!! @caslon.bsky.social
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A trumpet honeysuckle inflorescence, not yet open but a characteristic deep coral color.
Fuzzy serviceberry buds.
Zizia aurea/golden alexanders, with one umbel visible, flowers unopened.
Packera aurea buds, deep purple, with maybe a pinprick of lighter color visible at their apex.
Flowers that are merely thinking about it, for now
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A fuzzy little plant arising from mulch.
Itty bitty Culver's root coming up.
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Don't forget to look up.
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Three mottled green leaves arising from brown leaf litter.
A deeply veined palmate leaf, vertically rolled into itself, arises in a red stem.
A thimbleweed leaf casts stark shadows onto itself in sideways morning light.
More of the little spring guys are coming up 🥹
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A Packera aurea leaf with pale brown miner tracks on it, lined with deep purple. It's surrounded by smaller unmarked green leaves and crispy brown oak leaves.
I took a bunch of photos of leaf miner tracks on Packera aurea leaves today. This is my favorite.
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A garden bed inside an aged concrete border. There's a lot going on: bare dark brown soil, lighter brown fallen leaves and old stems, the warm yellows of last year's Heuchera "Autumn Bride" leaves, the spring green of new hydrangea buds, and many deep greens with purple or red tones from scarlet bee balm, columbine, and wild geranium. Zizia aurea, Phlox stolonifera, and the deep red winter rosettes of sundrops are also in frame.
t e x t u r e
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Tiny new flower buds clasped by leaves on a coral honeysuckle vine.
The trumpet honeysuckle is like 🫣
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A few more winter sown species looking promising today. Most certain: Zizia aurea and Thermopsis caroliniana.
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The bluebells will continue
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Herding plants
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Houstonia caerulea, azure bluet, a single pale blue flower blooming from a bright green mound of tiny leaves. The flower has a yellow center.
Happy Spring Equinox, Northern Hemisphere denizens.
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A terrible little patch of lawn weeds like hairy bittercress, speedwell, and chickweed made a bit better by cute cool-toned columbine leaves scattered throughout.
Today I learned I have just. So many little baby volunteer columbine plants in my "lawn" 😂 such as (what remains of) it is. Most are at the edge across the driveway from several mature plants... but several are on other edges or just Around.
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