Company’s coming for dinner. No time to write. But I do have lots to show. So let’s dive in, shall we?
One magnolia bloom has completely opened.
Trout lily. The only one that’s flowered so far. That’s Charlie in the background.
A three-fer: Solomon’s Seal, false solomon’s seal in the center, and a sessile-leaf bellwort at right.
This!! is a jack-in-the-pulpit. A baby. No flower yet.
Maggie helped me find others.
This knocks my socks off: it’s maidenhair fern. It just came up today, I think. Can you see the incipient leaves are triangular?
Also, if you know what maidenhair fern looks like when it’s all opened up, you can see how the Y-shaped bit at left, above, will open up into the circular pattern that so characterizes maidenhair. (It’s like, the ONE fern I can ID.)
Another kind of fern…
This is an apple tree starting to leaf out…
A haze of fluorescent green…
…which turns out to be largely sugar maple flowers.
The first starflower I’ve seen this year…
A sea of Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)…
…including one that’s formed flowers. They don’t flower every year, apparently. The first year, they have one leaf, and they come back the second year with two leaves and a flower. Or so I recall.
This is the mystery azalea (?!) in the yard, first chronicled here on April 15th.
I think the flowers look like tiny barnacles filled with spiders, but that’s just me.
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