April showers (of which we had plenty) bring May flowers, so the saying goes. And it's May, so I went flower hunting down by the river.
There were salmonberry flowers:
Looks like something has been feasting on a leaf already. |
And bleeding hearts, all very pale this year.
Dicentra formosa |
Always one of my favourite flowers. |
Hiding under the leaves, I found the yellow flowers of twinberries, and some buds:
Lonicera involucrata |
The flowers grow in pairs, each pair surrounded by a cup of large bracts. The berries will be blue-black, also in pairs. |
And down in the grass by the riverside, many small white flowers with lilac markings:
I know they're cherries because last year, I picked and ate a few. They were sour. |
And I'm still sorting the rest.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Las lluvias de abril, dicen, traen las flores de mayo. Y estamos en mayo, así que fui a caminar al lado del rio para buscarlas.
Fotos:
- Había flores de salmonberry, Rubus spectabilis; sus frutas son parecidas a las frambuesas.
- Y corazones sangrantes, siempre una de mis flores favoritas. Este año salieron muy pálidas.
- Más. Son flores nativas, Dicentra formosa.
- Escondidas bajo las ramas encontré las flores amarillas de Lonicera involucrata, la baya gemela.
- Las flores crecen dos juntas en en cada bráctea. Las bayas son casi negras.
- Entre las hierbas y pasto junto al rio, crecen estas florecitas blancas, una de las Draba.
- Y el cerezo nativo alza sus ramas cargadas de flores al lado del estacionamiento. Sé que es un cerezo porque el año pasado coseché algunas cerezas y las comí. Eran amargas.
Y sigo revisando las demás.
No comments:
Post a Comment
I'm having to moderate all comments because Blogger seems to have a problem notifying me. Sorry about that. I will review them several times daily, though, until this issue is fixed.
Also, I have word verification on, because I found out that not only do I get spam without it, but it gets passed on to anyone commenting in that thread. Not cool!