Saturday we biked along the rail trail, but stopped to hike through the Arboretum. There are an insane number of flowers out.
White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
There were also lots of red trillium, but all the flowers were closed.
Trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Dwarf larkspur (Delphinium tricorne)
Bluebells/Cowslip (Mertensia virginica)
If you walk along the rail trail, the woods of the lower arboretum are covered with bluebells. It’s pretty amazing.
We even found mutants!
Cherry blossoms are blooming on the riverfront!
Also, we spent time Saturday cleaning up flower beds and, essentially, starting over with the herb garden. I lost a lot of plants this winter, so I decided to add in some new things, including raspberry bushes.
Here’s how things looked on the rail trail early this morning:
Here’s how things look at my house.
Forsythia were one of Grandmom’s favorite spring flowers. She had a giant bush outside her front door, and every time we’d trim it, we’d get lectured not to cut it back too hard, so it’d still bloom the following spring.
She also loved daffodils:
It looks like only one bleeding heart made it through the winter.
But I planted some new blubs around the bleeding heart, so perhaps next year it will have more company than the ferns.
I saw more flowers than I expected to. Of course there were daffodils–including ones that had naturalized and were the only signs of houses that are long gone.
But I also saw Anemones and even a couple bluebells (most were almost ready to bloom–there were only a few open flowers).
Telling secrets:
These were easy to spot from the trail riding by:
Which led me to find these:
Yup! It’s time for the first spring flowers!
Funny thing is the snow in town is already completely gone.
I know the weather was gorgeous this weekend, but we were BUSY, so I didn’t have time to get out with my camera–just got a couple cell phone pictures.
Temperatures got into the 70s today(!) so Michael and I took a short hike around the Arboretum.
Looks like the plants have recognized it’s warm as well–won’t they be sadly surprised when it snows on Wednesday.
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While in Boston, we visited the Arnold Arboretum. The day started rainy, but the skies eventually cleared.
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My birthday gift was a wide-angle lens for my camera, so this morning we drove to Tygart Lake to see if I could find anything to photograph.
It needed a tripod, but I wasn’t hiking with one. All in all, not too bad for my first tries.
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Yup. There were some rhododendron blooming. I was shocked too.
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We had a nice hike around the WV Botanic Garden.
Flowers at both the WV Botanic Garden and my house.
Day lilies at my house:
WV Botanic Garden
This is a good spring for flowers.
Hydrangea Hydrangea macrophylla As you can see, we have naturally acidic soil here.
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I had a huge broom at one point, but when we put in the parking spot, the ground got too wet and it died. So I planted another (slightly smaller) in a different location, and we were actually home this year to see it bloom! (YAY!)
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