World Bee Day!

Save The Bees!

Bee Visiting Globe Allium

Tips to help save the bees:

 Plant diverse types of flowers in your landscape. Make sure you have something in bloom from April through the hard freezes of early November. The most critical time for bees is early spring. 

 Avoid purchasing plants that may have been treated with insecticides which could harm bees and other insects when they collect the plant’s nectar or pollen. Purchase plants that are labeled as neonicotinoid-free or better yet, GO ORGANIC.

Orange-belted Bumblebee 

on ground ivy, also known as creeping charlie. Bombus ternarius, or tricolored bumblebee, is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee. It is a ground-nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season, common throughout the northeastern United States and much of Canada.

Bee On Hellebore

Bumble Bee On False Indigo

Bumble Bee On Lilacs

Bumble Bee On Lobelia

Bees On Sunflower

Bee Napping On Cosmo

Bee On Purple Liatris

Bee On Bleeding Hearts

Bee On Anise Hyssop

Bumble Bee On Echinacea

Bumble Bee On Sunflower Maximillion

Bees On Echinacea

Bee On Echinacea

Bee In Gentian Flower

Bee On Black Eyed Susan

Bees On Globe Allium

Bees On Crocuses

Bees Dancing In A Crocus

Sweat Bee On Crocus

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Enjoying Spring In Vermont

One of my favorite things to do in the Spring, 

hang out amongst the blooming trilliums.

Me Amongst The Roots.

Thank you Patty Garvey for taking this photo.

 Me Loving A Gorgeous Green Mossy Wall In The Forest.

Thank you Ashley Jones for taking this photo.

Just Me Enjoying Spring in Hinesburg!

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Arugula Flowers

Arugula Flowers
Who knew Arugula flower are so cool looking!

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Columbine

 Blue & White Columbine

Purple  Columbine

 Pink Columbine

So Pretty In Pink

Columbine In Purple & White

 Purple  Columbine

 Wild Columbine

 Wild Columbine

Wild Columbine & Wild Blueberry Flowers

Wild Columbine or Aquilegia canadensis is an herbaceous perennial native to woodland and rocky slopes in eastern North America, prized for its red and yellow flowers. This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers equipped with distinctly backward-pointing tubes, similar to the garden Columbines. These tubes, or spurs, contain nectar that attracts long-tongued insects and hummingbirds especially adapted for reaching the sweet secretion. It is reported that Native Americans rubbed the crushed seeds on the hands of men as a love charm.

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Dandelions & Forget Me Nots

 

Forget Me Nots & A Dandelion. 

Happy National Wildflower Week!

Forget-me-not, Myosotis sylvatica. The word "Myosotis" in the species name comes from Greek words meaning "mouse ear."

Forget Me Nots & Dandelions

Dandelions

Taraxacum are one of the first foods for native bees in spring. Before the invention of lawns, people praised dandelions as a bounty of food, medicine and magic. Gardeners often weeded out the grass to make room for the dandelions. But somewhere in the twentieth century, humans decided that the dandelion was a weed. Dandelions are good for your lawn. Their roots loosen hard-packed soil, aerate the earth and help reduce erosion. The deep taproot pulls nutrients such as calcium from deep in the soil and makes them available to other plants. While most think they’re a lawn killer, dandelions actually fertilize the grass.

For millenniums, people have been using dandelion tonics to help the liver remove toxins from the bloodstream and as a gentle diuretic that provides nutrients and helps the digestive system. Dandelions are actually more nutritious than most of the vegetables in your garden. The flowers, leaves, & roots can be used as food and medicine. The flowers can be used to make wine. Dried or roasted roots can be used as a no-caffeine coffee substitute.

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Disclaimer

My blog is meant to inform and I strive to be totally accurate. It is solely up to the reader to ensure proper plant identification. Some wild plants are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects.

Trilliums

Trilliums 

Spring Woodland Flowers. 

Four types of trilliums grow in Vermont; White trillium, Painted trillium, Nodding trillium, and Red Trillium. It takes 2 years for a trillium seed to send out its first leaf. Trillium seeds are primarily dispersed by Ants. Maroon trillium goes by many names, like Wake-robin or Stinking Benjamin.

Never pick a Trillium!
Here's why...
1. It takes 9 years after germination for a trillium to flower. 
2. Each flower yields only ONE seed pod each year. 
3. Each plant can live up to 25 years, and gains all of its nourishment for the remainder of the year during the spring when its leaves are present. 
4. Trillium are propagated by ANTS. Not bees, the wind or birds. The seeds are covered by a sweet coating, which entices the ants to carry seeds underground into their colonies. After eating the coating, the seed germinates in the perfect subterranean environment. 
Every trillium in the forest is essentially a miracle.

Red Trillium

Red Trillium

Red Trillium

White Trillium

White Trilliums 

& a Trout Lily

Red Trillium

Red Trillium

A rare mauve pink Trillium

This is what it looked like when getting ready to open.

Red Trillium

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Squills

Siberian Squills

(Scilla siberica) is one of the earliest spring bulbs to come to flower. They originate from Russia, Turkey and the Caucasus, and is widely cultivated for its dark blue flowers.

Siberian Squills

Siberian Squills

Bunny in a field of Siberian Squills.

 

Striped squills 

also known as Puschkinia scilloides, or Lebanon squill, is a perennial bulb that originated in Asia Minor, Lebanon, and the Caucasus. A member of the Asparagaceae (asparagus family), this small relative of the hyacinth also blooms in spring.

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