Flowers in the arboretum
My spouse and I took our first trip to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum since The Before Times recently. At a native wildflower garden, we encountered a yellow lady’s slipper and a very-late-blooming white trillium.
A black-ish iris blooms
The photo on the left is a picture of iris variety “Before the Storm” in bloom in my yard from a few years ago. The iris on the right is called “Midnight Oil”; I took this picture of it blooming only a few weeks ago.
Wildlife in the urban garden
I’ve written in a previous blog how much I love dragonflies. This year, I caught a great photo of a similar brown dragonfly sitting on a stake I’ve used to mark where I planted some stonecrop that I moved from my shady front yard to the full sun of my backyard.
Native garden beauties
Two wildflower plants native to this part of the world have bloomed in my garden: wild geranium and Canada violet.
Spring’s trying to be sprung
A photo of the first flower of the year in my garden heralds hope for spring.