Pat and I met for lunch at Cracker Barrel and then drove to Garbry Big Woods Sanctuary to look at the wildflowers. I picked the day, a beautiful one. The Temperature was in the sixties.
This is why we went...Large-flowered Trillium throughout the entire park with Wild Blue Phlox mingled in.
The Drooping Trillium were blooming, too.
And so were the Sessile Trillium.
Pat and I spent three hours walking the boardwalk loop. There was so much to see. (This loop can be walked at a steady pass in about twenty minutes.) We stopped and sat at the convenient benches to savor the day...the soft breeze, the comfortable temperatures, the beautiful sights (and to rest our knees and legs.)
Here are some of the flowers we saw. (More than just these were blooming.)
The Spring Beauties were scattered throughout the entire woods but because they are tiny, they are not as showy as the trillium.
Blue violets...(and yellow ones, too.)
Goldenseal
Jack-in-the-Pulpit...
The last of the Large-flowered Bellwort for the season
Rue Anemone....
Solomon's Seal...
Buds on the Solomon's Plume (also called False Solomon's Seal)...
Sweet Cicely...Most of the flowers were not quite open but we especially liked this one which was growing up between the boards of the boardwalk.
A few Blue Cohosh flowers remained...
Though many Wild Ginger buds were not open yet, we found this flower.
The Wild Geraniums were scattered here and there. We had to keep our eyes open.
Pat even found a Dandelion. Fortunately the area is too wet for dandelions to thrive.
I've decided to leave our other discoveries for the next post. This post is getting too long. Hope you have time to check out Part 2 which I am starting to write as soon as I post this one.
What a fun day! You found lots of blooming plants!
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