TheMondayGarden.com, Eco-gardening at its best
March 20, 2006 Issue 198
Happy first day of Spring, 2006.
To mark the day, here's a series of photos all taken last April in Stamford CT, mostly at the Bartlett Arboretum. This particular group of pictures was compiled for a Master Gardeners' educational display for users of the Bartlett's woodland trails but I thought you'd like to see them too.
PICTURE: Trout lily, Scalzi Park April 2005.
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PICTURES (ABOVE): The catkins (flowers) of an ironwood (hornbeam) -- the lovely small kin of the American beech; the bright red new samaras (seeds) of a red swap maple; and the lemon-yellow flowers of a spice bush. All at the Bartlett, April 2005.
PICTURE: The lovely, rare American native, marsh marigold mixed with skunk cabbage and an invasive barberry (to the right) at the Bartlett. April 2005
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PICTURES (ABOVE): The flowers of spring beauty at Scalzi Park, one of the Bartlett's shy woods violets; and a jack-in-the-pulpit at the Bartlett. April 2005.
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PICTURES (ABOVE): New leaves of a very young tulip tree, an equally small swamp oak, and the young American beech. All at the Bartlett, April 2005.
PICTURE: The shape of the lovely flower of the blue berry reflects its kinship with heaths and heathers, at the Bartlett, April 2005
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PICTURES (ABOVE): Coltsfoot, a wonderful rare American native at the Bartlett, April 2005
PICTURE: Garlic mustard, an alien invader that threatens all of the rare woodlands flowers seen in this article.
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PICTURES (ABOVE): : veronica (speedwell) at the Bartlett, April 2005
Photo credits: Sue Sweeney
© Sue Sweeney 2006
Comments (1)
Some wonderful photographs here!
Posted by Nancy | March 26, 2006 10:28 PM
Posted on March 26, 2006 22:28