Just a week or two after emerging from the ground, the plants have produced a singular flower. This bloomed for a few days and has now disappeared, and the beginnings of a fruit are starting to show (it is May 19th and the picture is about 10 days old) Goldenseal is used in tons of […]
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Hydrastis canadensis (goldenseal)
Posted in Flora on May 19, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Thalictrum dioicum (early meadow rue)
Posted in Flora, Uncategorized on May 19, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
This plants is a foot tall perhaps a bit more. I added it to the mix about 3 years ago and this year I am starting to see new plants pop up, so it is definitely starting to spread throughout the garden. I love the leaves that are tinted grayish green, and this year the […]
Mertensia virginica (virginia bluebells)
Posted in Flora, Uncategorized on May 19, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
The plants are just now past blooming peak. While they deliver beautiful hues of color early spring, they will a memory by Memorial day – the flowers will be gone and the seedpods will start drooping off the stems. Within another month the plants will wither and disappear altogether. Virginia bluebells do well in the […]
April emergence
Posted in Flora on April 26, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Plants are popping up vigorously everywhere, and they are adding inches of growth almost overnight. This is a special time when the early bloomers are not yet shaded out by the eventually much taller summer perennials and leafing trees. Below sessile bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia), twinleaf (Jeffersonia dyphilla), mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) run the roost. In another […]
Some more olfactory favorites
Posted in Flora, Interesting on July 11, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
It is now early July and flowers are starting to appear in bigger numbers. I feel this is a bit later than last year (that was a super hot and dry summer). I have yet to see monarchs in big numbers this year, the damp and overcast weather which we been having for a while […]
Unintended residents
Posted in Flora, Interesting on July 9, 2023 | 2 Comments »
Unless you start off with a virgin barren plot of land, and radiate the hell out of it, you are going to be contending with other plants, whether you like it or not. Some of these could be have been planted by a former home owner, and these are now established and adding wild life […]
Cherry on top
Posted in Flora, Interesting on December 20, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Well, not exactly, as white oak is really the dominant species where I live. But there are other trees in the understory and for the longest time I could not identify this tree with a smooth grey bark. I finally figured out that it is a Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica). It is classified as an […]
Repeated lion sighting
Posted in Edible, Flora, Interesting on November 14, 2022 | Leave a Comment »
Well, not exactly. But I am lucky enough to get the beautiful lion’s mane fungus coming back this year. Hericium erinaceus is an edible fungus that looks out of this world. Maybe ‘lucky’ is not the word I should use as it is living on the timbers that hold together a stairway alongside the house, […]
Packera aurea (golden ragwort)
Posted in Flora, Interesting, Plant bio on July 19, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
This was an unusual plant to find at a plant store in October last year, but they were on sale and the basal leaves had a nice dark green color, so I took them home and planted them among the pines and black cherries. Much to my surprise they survived and thrived. The plant adds […]
The last of the spiderworts
Posted in Flora, Interesting on July 19, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Tradescantia virginiana has done well in the woodland garden over the years, but the plants that get more sun have been prolific bloomers. Of course, with the wet weather we have been enduring they all are looking a bid sad and wet right now. I am planning on adding more spiderworts later this year, in […]