@redtrilliumgardens
Red Trillium Gardens (redtrilliumgardens.com) is a nursery based out of Lunenburg, MA, specializing in the #nativeplants of New England. (Ecoregion III/59h/zone 6a).
The bulbous, mouth-shaped flowers of Chelone glabra (white turtlehead)
#FallbackFlowers to September 3, 2021, Lane Conservation Area, Lunenburg, MA.
#nativeplants of New England
This is super cool! I've often wondered why it is that some Lepidoptera can use only one species while others can make use of the whole family.
White wood aster (Eurybia divaricata). A cluster of composite flowers, each with white ray florets and yellow disk florets.
#FallbackFlowers to August 26, 2020 in Lunenburg, MA.
Oh this is absolutely gorgeous!
I have a dirty secret, as someone who works with plants and cares about the web of life:
I hate winter. I know it's important. But I just want there to be flowers again.
Hannafuhd here!
Apios americana (American groundnut). A cluster of pink/red, irregular flowers
Desmodium canadense, showy-tick trefoil. A cluster of pink flowers.
Sagittaria latifolia, broadleaf arrowhead. A white, three-petaled flower growing in water.
Scutellaria lateriflora, side-flowering or blue skullcap. Bell-shaped purple flowers arranged on the side of a stem.
Some #FallbackFlowers from Aug 22, 2021 at Ausable Point in Peru, NY.
#nativeplants #nativeplantsofthenortheast
Interesting, I didn't know it was a different genus. I shoulda read the alt text!
I've never heard the name "swamp lantern," and I love it!
(You have a different skunk cabbage in the PNW, right? We have Symplocarpus foetidus here on the East Coast).
Do you have ants in your #nativeplants? What do you do about them?
The answer might be "nothing."
Read the blog post here: redtrilliumgardens.com/posts/how-an...
This is crazy to me, as it's so common here in the northeast U.S.! (Unclear if it's native in both Europe and the U.S., or if it's introduced).
I saw live oak for the first time this past November, my first visit to the Bay Area. Such a great profile on that tree!
Virginia meadow beauty (Rhexia virginica), a single flower with four bright pink petals and long, bright yellow/orange stamens.
Apparently 4 years and 6mo ago today I visited Garden in the Woods (one of many visits!) Here's one of the #nativeplants I saw: Rhexia virginica (Virginia meadow-beauty).
#FallbackFlowers #nativeplantsofnewengland
Okay, so you could make it worse. Or better!
Only vaguely? 😆
But this is an underrated favorite of mine!
I was gonna ask if that was Schizachyrium scoparium, but I see that I was wrong!
Oooh, ooh, I have something for this! (ahem, a day late). Corvus frugilegus, the rook, seen on the walking path to Stonehenge this past November. Not native to my area, ofc, but vulnerable in its native range in Europe.
That's probably an archetype in Pathfinder 2e already, lol.
So it sounds like if this is G. purpureum, it's non-native, correct?
(This is all so confusing!)
I didn't try to sniff it! Alas, never been back to this conservation area (Mt. Holyoke Range State Park in western MA), so no opportunities for further olfactory exploration. Yet!
Oh, wild! Man I've learned so much about this species today!
Stinky Bob, lol.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure which subspecies this is, which determines whether or not it is native! Apparently ssp. purpureum is European and ssp. robertianum is American. Would love some expert to chime in and tell me!
Love the stark architectural beauty and then the pop of color!
A single flower of Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), showing five pink petals that appear almost striped with deeper pink.
#Fallback to August 6, 2020 with herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) #FallbackFlowers #nativeplants #nativeplantsofnewengland
I wouldn't say I *love* it, but I very much appreciate the drab looking Boehmeria cylindrica, smallspike false nettle, as it's the host plant for numerous butterflies/moths, including the eastern comma, the question mark, and the red admiral. And it's a #nativeplant of New England!
Also some photos from last year, of the lake similarly frozen over.
This ferry stands between where I live and my hometown, so it's an adventure I get to have 10-12 times a year!
I had a similar experience recently, though thankfully not in the dark! This was before the cold snap; when I went the opposite direction it was flat as a mirror, but covered in frozen chunks of ice.
Yep! At least not in the dark!
I was in this position last year! Since then I've built a number of small things, mostly winter sowing corrals and surfaces to put my plants on. I'm a pro with a staple gun and hardware cloth now!
(... don't get too excited; that's about it)
