Friday, April 9, 2010
Virginina Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
The Virginina Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are open. Lovely. They have to be one of my favorite flowers.
Virginia Bluebells
These Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) grow in the shaded place under by back porch. I planted them last year. They are native to the Philadelphia region.
I bought a pot of the Bluebells last year at the Bowman's Hill Plant Sale. Twice each year the reserve has a plants sale where they sell native plants for the SE Pennsylvania region.
The Bluebells are truly lovely. The pink-violet color of the young buds will become a heavenly lavender-blue. The mature open flowers are trumpet shaped. I'll post a photo when they bloom.
They grow in colonies in rich woodlands. Bluebells carpet the woodland floor and light up the understory in the woods of the Bowman's Hill Reserve in New Hope, PA.
I bought a pot of the Bluebells last year at the Bowman's Hill Plant Sale. Twice each year the reserve has a plants sale where they sell native plants for the SE Pennsylvania region.
The Bluebells are truly lovely. The pink-violet color of the young buds will become a heavenly lavender-blue. The mature open flowers are trumpet shaped. I'll post a photo when they bloom.
They grow in colonies in rich woodlands. Bluebells carpet the woodland floor and light up the understory in the woods of the Bowman's Hill Reserve in New Hope, PA.
Trout Lilly leaves
The Trout Lilly (Erythronium americanum)leaves are peaking out among the leaf litter. The beautiful blooms can't be far behind. By the brown mottling on the leaves I think that this is the yellow flowered Trout Lilly. The white Trout Lilly are less mottled. But, I could be wrong. Well the blossom will tell.
The flower is a pretty yellow trumpet-shaped blossom.
What I can't understand sometimes is why humans look to far away lands for garden flowers, when we have so many beautiful ones right here close to home.
I guess it is novelty. Or a need to mimic the rich Europeans of centuries past who flaunted their wealth by planting their gardens with evermore exotic flowers. Or is it simply discontentment. And not appreciating what we have?
The flower is a pretty yellow trumpet-shaped blossom.
What I can't understand sometimes is why humans look to far away lands for garden flowers, when we have so many beautiful ones right here close to home.
I guess it is novelty. Or a need to mimic the rich Europeans of centuries past who flaunted their wealth by planting their gardens with evermore exotic flowers. Or is it simply discontentment. And not appreciating what we have?
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