Friday, April 27, 2007

Friday Flowers: Bloodroot



Emerging blooms wrapped in a single leaf










  1. Beautiful bloodroot! I'll be heading of to a wildflower garden in town here next week to see what's bloomin'.

  2. So lovely. Mine are gone, too. Yes - 'ephemeral'. That word must have been coined to describe the brevity of wild flower bloom.

    The phrase from Frost's poem 'The Oven Bird' always comes to mind this time of year;
    " . . . When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
    On sunny days a moment overcast . . "

  3. These are so pretty - never knew they might be available from a nursery.

  4. Those are nice. I'm thinking that I've seen them before but didn't know what they were.

  5. Ruth, they *are* very pretty. I ran outside to see something similar growing near the feeders but yellow was dull with only 4 petals.

    I've always been fond of wildflowers - they take care of themselves.

  6. Lynne- Fleeting beauty, but worth planting the short display. The leaves are very attractive too.

    Cathy- I haven't heard that poem, but it is so true that blooms go down in showers. I found a few more late bloomers today in a sheltered area.

    Laura- So pretty, but if you don't look on the right day, you could miss them until next year!

    Larry- I got a wildflower book from the library this week to identify some of those unknown flowers I see each year. I have never recognized them before either.

    Mary- You have the birds, I saw a flower! I prefer anything (or anyone) who can take care of themselves.

  7. I use to work in a spot that had hundreds and hundreds of bloodroot plants growing their! They are and probably will always be my all time favortie flowers!! Glad you were able to capture the flower, they don't stay open long!

  8. Tom- I only found masses of them in one area. Otherwise they were quite spread apart.

  9. I think these were planted this way!