The Large-Flowered Trilliums (Trillium grandiflorum) I planted a few years ago are slowly settling in and bulking up. It’s an elegant flower with its three gleaming-white petals.
So we got back from Tennessee on Friday afternoon, and the garden welcomed us back with a fabulous show. However, the weather gods were preparing a more malicious welcome, namely the 3-5″ of snow predicted for the following day.
Category: Bulbs, Garden Tour, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers Tags: Bloodroot, Clove Currant, Daffodils, Great Merrybells, Great White Trillium, Hellebores, Lenten Rose, Ostrich Ferns, Serviceberry, Tulipa dasystemon, Tulipa praestans 'Fusilier, Tulipa praestans 'Unicum', Tulipa turkestanica, tulips, Virginia Bluebells
Multiple sources indicated that Hardwood Cove was one of the best short wildflower walks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s just under a mile, and yet it took us over THREE HOURS to complete the hike.
Category: Native Plants and Wildflowers, Travel Tags: Bishop's Cap, Creeping Phlox, Erect White Trillium, Foamflower, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Great White Trillium, Hardwood Cove Nature Trail, Hepatica, Mountain Silverbell, Rue Anemone, Showy Orchis, Solomon's Seal, Squirrel Corn, Sweet White Violets, Tennessee Wildflowers, White Fringed Phacelia, Wildflower Walks, Yellow Mandarin, Yellow Trillium
As I recall, winter was in no hurry to depart this year, and spring was tardy in arriving.
Category: Bulbs, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers, Shrubs and Small Trees Tags: Allium 'Globemaster', Bleeding Heart, Celandine Poppy, Clove Currant, Crocus, Daffodils, Daffodils in Containers, Goldfinches, Great White Trillium, Ostrich Ferns, Poppies, Snowdrops, species tulips, Spicebush, tulips, Tulips in Containers, Virginia Bluebells, Wild Columbine
It’s New Year’s Day, and I’m sitting on our back porch looking out on the garden, which is in a state of deep freeze. Now seems like a good time to think about the flowers that made me happiest over the year that just passed.
Category: Bulbs, Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers Tags: Allium 'Summer Beauty', Anise Hyssop, Blue wild indigo, Butterflyweed, Clematis 'Jackmanii', Clove Currant, Crocus, Cup Plant, Cutleaf Coneflower, Great White Trillium, Japanese Anemone 'Honorine Jobert', Mexican Sunflower, Short's Aster, Tulip 'Princess Irene', Virginia Bluebells, Wild Bergamot, Wild Columbine
Tomorrow is Bloom Day, a chance for us to give a monthly overview of everything in flower in their gardens. Garden Bloggers Bloom Day is hosted by May Dreams Gardens, where you can find a link to Bloom Day posts from around the world.
Category: Native Plants and Wildflowers, Perennial flowers Tags: Allium 'Purple Sensation', Bleeding Heart, Brunnera, Catmint, Celandine Poppy, Common Lilac, False Forget-Me-Not, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Golden Alexander, Great White Trillium, Hellebores, Humor, Nepeta, Prairie Smoke, Prairie Trillium, Red Baneberry, tulips, Tulips in Containers, Virginia Bluebells, Wild Columbine, Wild Geranium
Sorry about the title, I just had to express how happy I am that we now have some White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) – in bloom – of our very own.
So these past few days Judy and I have been staying with friends who live outside of Baltimore. On Friday we had an expedition to the Mt. Cuba Center near Wilmington, Delaware. This is a sort of botanical garden dedicated to the native plants of the Mid-Atlantic region. There’s lots from Mt. Cuba to show …
Category: Garden Tour, Native Plants and Wildflowers Tags: False Rue Anemone, Great White Trillium, Least Trillium, Mt. Cuba Center, Native Woodland Wildflowers, Nodding Trillium, Red Trillium, Spring Ephemeral Wildflowers, Toad Lily, White Trout Lilies, Woodland Wildflowers, Yellow Trout Lilies
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