Blossoms, Birdies, and Buds

This post is just downloading some pics of plants including some rare and unusual plants we have acquired through the years. Some pics are from last year.

                                           Cornus mas - Cornelian Cherry Dogwood - blooms in March
                                           - fruit makes delectably awesome tart preserves

                                                 Sakura baby - Yoshino Flowering Cherry - sometimes the flowers
                                                 seem so bright in the morning it seems as if a white light is shining in

                                                  This is what can happen when you toss peaches off the deck

                                                   Ramps are up. Got them in West Virginia and transplanted last yr.
                                                   This and other types of wold leeks were called "son of the ram" as
                                                   they appear when sun is in Aries

                                                  

                                                  Rosemary makes it through the winter - (barely) buried under sawdust
                                                  - I like to go along the herb garden and nibble on a medley of parsley,
                                                  sage, rosemary, and thyme

                                                    Fixing up the ole veggie (er weed) garden

                                                                    A wild saxafrage

                                                      Kwanzan Flowering Cherry

                                                 Kwanzan Flowering Cherry - Inside View

                                         A patch of ragwort with our cat Peace

                                                Pink Quince tree blooms with white blossoms of the hardy orange -
                                                The hardy bitter oranges make a great lemonade, a wonderfully
                                                complex bitter marmalade and I plan to use the rinds ion homemade
                                                beer this coming autumn

                                                    Mayhaw blossoms. Hawthornes and apples seem to have these cool
                                                    red blotched blooms, perhaps a symbol of the red and the white,
                                                    female and male energies entwining - and a symbol of Beltaine

                                                     Tulips are just fun

                                                        Thistle (and her shadow - Lucifer)

                                                    Japanese Flowering Ash Tree

           
                                                  Purple Mitsuba (aka Japanese Parsley) - good in salads
                                                  and pesto. Also a perennial that reseeds and spreads around too

                                                   Alabama Snow Wreath - rare Spirea relative

                                                    Crandall American Black Currant - good fruit too

 

Forget-me-nots

 

 

Wild Delphinium, ie. Larkspur

seeing hillsides full of these is magickal

 

 

 

Shisandra vine - leaves and berries said to make an adaptagenic tea and berries for juice - have yet to try

 

 

 

Dead Nettle not looking dead

 

 

 

Bonnie Virginia bluebells

 

 

A bonnie red Scotch broom

 

 

Pulminaria, ie. Lungwort - March flowering with nice spotted leaves

 

 

The beautiful Red Buckeye

 

 

Sapphire Berry, aka. Sweetleaf - has neat blue berries

 

 

Fothergilla - nice woodland shrub

 

 

Poison Ivy - what's itchin' me now

 

 

Alternate Leaf Dogwood, ie Pagoda Dogwood - found in Ohio

 

 

Japanese Snowbell (Styrax japonioca) from last May - seeds make great malas