Spring Beauty time again

[alfredo]

Lexington Cemetery

[MFM008]

1. spring doesnt come to Washington

until May.......

[alfredo]

6. It's worth the wait I hope

[niyad]

2. Thank you for sharing these lovely images.

[alfredo]

7. Thanks

[2naSalit]

3. Lovely!

We're several weeks behind you, but most of our bulbs are up and we could have daffodils just in time for more wintry weather in a week.

[alfredo]

8. My Chives have exploded, almost too pretty to use.

[2naSalit]

12. I planted some last year...

They are buried in a mound of dirt. I have them in a raised bed but we have such hellatious wind here that it buried the chives. They're still alive. I don't want to uncover them until the frost season is over.

[alfredo]

16. I do nothing to protect them. Last year a prickly pear sprouted in

the pot with the chives. Somehow a seed fell in and sprouted.

[alfredo]

17. I do nothing to protect them. Last year a prickly pear sprouted in

the pot with the chives. Somehow a seed fell in and sprouted.

[Botany]

4. Those white flowers might be real Spring Beauty flowers.

BTW There is a spring beauty mining bee. It is only around for 4 to 6 weeks and needs the forest
wildflower, "spring beauty" to complete its life cycle.

[alfredo]

5. Thanks for the info. Lovely image

I couldn't get a good image this year.

"Sometimes the magic works, sometime it doesn't." From "Little Big Man."

[czarjak]

20. One of the G.O.A.T.S.

[George McGovern]

10. Real nice Botany.

[George McGovern]

9. Very nice alfredo.

[alfredo]

11. It was good to get out and around.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Such lovely images, alfredo...

I think my favorite is the second one, where the blooming tree stands before the evergreen trees; they frame it perfectly.

Thank you!

[alfredo]

21. Thank you

[babylonsister]

14. Just beautiful. I miss this kind of spring in FL. nt

[StClone]

15. Of Ephemeral, Miner Bees and Miner's Lettuce

Fortune smiles on me as I have two species of Spring Beauty in my area. As noted in a reply above, Miner Bees require the Spring Beauty to complete their life cycle and are so-named for nesting in ground tunnels. The Spring Beauty belongs to the "Miner's Lettuce" Family as a close relative of our Spring Beauty was eaten by California miners to ward off scurvy.

The Spring Beauty's early arrival means a short life for the flower once the trees shade them out. Such plants are known as "ephemeral." Ephemeral is of Greek derivation meaning "lasting a short time, a day." I like this word.

[alfredo]

18. I was pleased that I could make it out there.

The cemetery is about 10 miles across town, a pain some days.

[MLAA]

19. Alfredo, what kind of tree is that? It is beautiful and lacy.

[alfredo]

22. I think it is a Weeping Cherry

[MLAA]

23. 🙂 thanks. I live in a desert, so not very familiar with trees.

[alfredo]

24. I lived in the sub Sahara. Cactus spines and trees were not an issue,

Falling on the ground was the issue. First the ground was hard packed, second was the volcanic ash that will cut you to shreds.