Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Flowers on Friday

Lots of blooming going on out there. Here’s the hidden delights of a mayapple.
Common stork’s-bill (maybe).
One of the chokeberries (Aronia), methinks.
Geranium genus.
Virginia bluebells
Polygonatum
Packera.
Golden alexanders and friend.
Star-of-Bethlehem and nymph Small Milkweed Bug.
Wisteria and carpenter bee.
Good gravy, azalea under oak.

The enormous flowers of big leaf magnolia smell… extraordinarily good. (This is evidently a quick way of telling Magnolia macrophylla from the similar large-flowered Magnolia tripetala, which stinks.) I smelled a very refreshing citrus, a nostalgic cola, and summertime. And I smelled it yards and yards away.

mthew

One response to “Flowers on Friday”

  1. Sherry Felix

    Love that you name them. I try to name mine too — not always successfully.

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