flowers
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Two Yellow Flowers
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris), also known as Cowslip, at Brooklyn Bridge Park, where this perennial was planted along the freshwater gardens and continues to thrive, having survived the salty inundation of Sandy. Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), growing all over the place, in this case in Prospect Park, where it wasn’t planted but spreads like wildfire…
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Mayapple
Also known as May apple, hog apple, mayflower, Indian apple, umbrella plant, American mandrake, among other names. It is Podophyllum peltatum to the botanists. Each of these plants will produce a single flower, which blossoms underneath the umbrella of leaves. The plant also reproduces asexually, via rhizomes underground, which is why it is often found…
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Inside the Magnolias
My new sunglasses make it difficult to see the screen on my camera. So I didn’t realize these were in monochrome until afterwards.These blossoms at Pier 6 and Atlantic Avenue were already on their way out. Brief is the bloom of the magnolias.Another tree with the color back on:
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Flowermania
It’s that time of year, when Backyard and Beyond starts to get overwhelmed with flowers.Some of this weeks sightings.
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Cherrybombs!
In honor of the rhetorical excess of Lil’ Kim Jong-un, I will bury you in cherry blossoms! Prospect Park will be a blazing pink sea of cherry blossoms!The worker bees of the Democratic People’s Republic will sweep across the pole to conquer the cherry blossoms of Brooklyn!
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Primrose Path
Primroses, although they don’t seem so prim to me. Genus Primula, much hybridized. Picture take last week; an early bloomer indeed. A native of western Eurasia, these are in the garden of another native of western Eurasia.
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Green-Wood
Cherries are starting to bloom.Although still chilly, the morning sun was strong enough to begin heating these hard cases up.The bulbs and corms, of course, are bursting with stored-up goodness. Dark-eyed Junco, a winter bird, still hanging around. Two weeks ago, when I was last in Green-Wood, the cemetery was all about the Common Raven,…
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Kitten Tails
Spring sneaks up on us. Little feelers of the season are already present in the city, like American Woodcocks flying down Broadway, crocuses blooming, witchhazel tendrils gnarling out from branches. I just noticed these catkins hanging on State Street. A number of plant families have these pendent flower clusters, which usually depend on wind pollination…
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