The rain continues here as I am sure it is in your gardens. Although it might be making it difficult to enjoy your garden, it is doing wonders for the plants. In the last week over a dozen flowers have come into bloom. In fact there are nineteen wildflowers now in bloom. In the order as the appeared to me in the garden:
- Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica
- Smooth Soloman’s Seal Polygonatum biflorum
- Pasque Flower Anemone Patens
- Wild Ginger Asarum canadense
- Jacob’s Ladder Polemonium reptans
- Shooting Star Dodecatheon meadia
- White Trillium Trillium grandiflorum
- Red Trillium Trillium erectum
- Toadshade Trillium Trillium sessile
- Wood Poppy Stylophorum diphyllum
- Wild Columbine Aquilegia canadensis
- Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea
- Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum
- Jack in the Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum
- Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia
- Doll’s Eyes Actaea pachypoda
- Birds Foot Violet Viola pedata
- Wild Lupine Lupinus perennis
- Prairie Smoke Geum triflorum
- Toadshade Trillium
- Bird's Foot Violet
- White Trillium
- Red Trillium
- Foamflower
- Wood Poppy
- Smooth Solomon's Seal
- Jacob's Ladder
- Virginia Bluebells
- Wild Lupine
- Shooting Star
- Jack in the Pulpit
- Wild Columbine
- Pasque Flower
- Doll's Eyes
- Prairie Smoke
- Sharp Lobed Hepatica
