Trillium
“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” ~Roland R Kemler
When spring starts warming up and flowers start blooming, my feet get itchy to take a walk down the creek to check on the wildflowers that grow over in a cliff area on my farm. Spring just isn’t right if I miss seeing some of the flowers.
Bent head trillium
The dogs and I had walked down the creek earlier in the spring when the early bloomers were beautifying the area, but I wanted to see the later bloomers too. One thing sure, the dogs are always ready to go to the creek, but they don’t seem as interested in the flowers as I am. In fact, sometimes when I’m trying to take a picture, they’ll come and step right on the poor blooms. But they were good today and simply shook creek water on them and on me.
Trout lily
I was surprised to find a trout lily still blooming. They are early bloomers but this guy kept his bloom on until I came calling. And then I was fortunate enough to find another favorite, the jack in the pulpit blooming. It was a little early for them. I saw many leaves but only a couple of blooms. The bent head trilliums were prolific on the cliffsides along the creek as they are nearly every year. They come in deep red, white and an odd sort of faded pink color.
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Wild Phlox
Then the wood poppy blooms like mad along the hillsides and so do the purple wild phlox. Sometimes it even grows right out in the rocky creek.
So, even though I had plenty of work to do at the house, I gave myself the gift of a nature walk and now I’m giving you the gift of walking along with me.
I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my favorite wildflowers. I have more pictures so it could be we’ll go again soon. At least with the pictures I already have. The weather is supposed to dip back toward winter and I have writing to do.
Did you like “walking” down the creek with me? What are some of your favorite wildflowers?
“Wildflowers aren’t meant to be cut & tamed. They’re meant to be loved and admired.” ~Anthony T. Hincks
Wood Poppy
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Right now we have hen’s teeth.
Your pictures reminded me of when we lived at the edge of the woods in Wisconsin. Lots of trillium and ours were pale pink. Little violets in the yard.
Now our elfin thyme and periwinkle ground cover stayed over the winter next to the house. I miss having a flowerbed. But our ground is too rocky and full of clay. We are renting, too.
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I do have a flowerbed but I haven’t put any new flowers in it yet this year. Good thing since it’s supposed to be cold most of next week. I’ll look up hen’s teeth. Not sure what that is. Trilliums are one of my favorites. I feel cheated it I miss out on seeing them in the spring. Those and Jack-in-the-pulpits and Dutchman’s Breeches.
I always enjoy your walks in the woods, seeing those precious little treasures few people have ever seen.
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I’m glad you enjoyed my flower pictures, Kathy. You know you are right. Not everyone is blessed to be in a place where they can see and share wildflowers.
Thanks for sharing your walk to see the wild flowers! Keep posting .
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Thanks for the encouragement, Roylene. I enjoy sharing photos from my walks.
are trout lily same as what we call adders tongue here in Indiana? Enjoyed our walk together thank you for sharing. I am not able to woods walk any longer due to arthritis and a failed hip replacement so especially enjoyed it.
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I looked it up, Martha, and some flowers they call adders tongue look nothing like this, but then one site did say that they were the same. Here’s that link if you’re interested. https://www.friendsofthewildflowergarden.org/pages/plants/yellowtroutlily.html
It said another name was the dogtooth violet, but my Kentucky flower books call it trout lily. Seems as though somewhere I read they were called that because the leaves had marking like a trout?? Not sure about that.
So glad you went along with me. I’ll have to post the other pictures I took maybe next Wednesday. While I was walking yesterday, I had to wonder how many more years I’d be able to make the trek. I’m not as young as I used to be, but then I guess none of us are.
You do have a lot of pretty wildflowers. We have several things blooming around here this time of the year, but I’m not sure of their names. I do know what the dandelion is and look forward to seeing it since it is one of the first little signs of spring even though it gets called a pesky weed. I still like to blow the seed pod, ha!
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I started trying to remember the names of the wildflowers I saw a few years ago. I still have to look some of them up. But others I remember and I also started remembering what the leaves look like as well as the bloom. That helps me find them. Especially the jack-in-the-pulpit one. That flower sometimes blends in with the background. I probably would have missed it yesterday if I hadn’t spotted the leaves.
Oh, and I’m a fan of the dandelion too. I even wrote a devotional about it. It’s on my devotions page here on my website if you want to check it out and don’t remember already reading it. https://www.annhgabhart.com/devotional/ It’s the third one down.
I love taking walks and enjoying God’s creations. I love daffodils and forsythia and wildflowers that pop up along the path. Love listening to the birds singing. What a glorious blessing to absorb all that God provides. Have a wonderful day!
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That is something that people like us can still enjoy while in this time of self isolating, Melissa. I’m blessed to live where I can get out and walk out in the beauty of God’s world. The birds have been happy this spring. The weatherman says cool days are coming and frost and freezes. I’m hoping it doesn’t hurt our flowers.
I like the Crimsom Clover and the shy little violets.
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The shy little violets. I like that, Karen, although I’m not sure they are too shy in my yard. I have purple patches of them. 🙂
In East Texas, the common wildflowers are the pink evening primrose, Indian paintbrush, and lupines including the classic bluebonnet. I’m particularly fond of the pink evening primrose.
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I looked up the evening primrose, Suzanne. It’s a very pretty flower but I also saw a Southern Living article telling gardeners that they’d be sorry if they planted it in flower gardens since it spread and crowded out everything else. I don’t know if that’s true, but I can imagine how pretty they are growing wild. I don’t think we have the Indian paintbrush here in Kentucky. At least not in my wildflower area, but I do find a pretty red flower called Fire Pink.