The Manor house at Wildwood Metropark
After a really hot week working outside last week the weather cooled down dramatically. It's perfect weather to go outside and the mosquitoes aren't swarming anymore.
It's also a great time of year to photograph some late spring time flowers. So as we walked through the park I photographed every flower I could find growing wild along the trails.
A lot of these flowers I found growing in the prairie areas of the park. Over the last few years the park system has worked hard to remove invasive species and restore native flowers and grass. This involved some herbicide but was primarily accomplished with mowing and controlled burning. It was worth the effort, the season is just getting started but soon the whole prairie will blossom.
Unfortunately I don't know the names of all these flowers so please feel free to comment if you do.
That bench in the background is a great place to sit and spot deer in the evening. It's the location of my most memorable encounter where I got to meet a deer that had become habituated to humans. It's not good for the deer but it was still cool to have a wild deer come up to me.
Of all these pictures there is one that I think I know. These white flowers are probably raspberry flowers
So now once again I have to ask my readers: when was the last time you went to the park? This place is only a five minute drive from my house and look at all the stuff I found.
I often worry that we are taking nature for granted. I really hope that people think about how important the natural ecosystem is. Places like this park and others in the area are some of the last places that a lot of plants and animals have. They need our help if they are to survive. We have a bad habit of ruining what's good around us. I hope to hear from you in the comments.
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Hi @waggy6 This is a wonderful post.
First photography: Species Campanula latifolia, is a large, leafy perennial with tubular bell-shaped flowers in shades of blue, lilac or white in summer. The leaves are nettle-shaped, but not hairy, larger at the bottom of the stem and becoming smaller towards the top. The stem is unbranched, and the flowers are in the axils of the upper leaves. Flowers are usually in shades of blue, but a white version is also available. Plants grow best in a partly-shaded position with plenty of moisture at the roots, although even in dry soils they form strong clumps.
Second photography: Species Conium maculatum, is a herbaceous biennial flowering plant that grows to 1.5–2.5 m (5–8 ft) tall, with a smooth, green, hollow stem, usually spotted or streaked with red or purple on the lower half of the stem. All parts of the plant are hairless (glabrous); the leaves are two- to four-pinnate, finely divided and lacy, overall triangular in shape, up to 50 cm (20 in) long and 40 cm (16 in) broad. It has been introduced and naturalised in many other areas, including Asia, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. It is often found on poorly drained soils, particularly near streams, ditches, and other surfaces water. It also appears on roadsides, edges of cultivated fields, and waste areas. It is considered an invasive species in 12 U.S. states.
Fourth photography: Species Tithonia diversifolia, is a robust annual or perennial herbaceous and bushy plant with a woodybase, growing up to 3 m tall. The stems are cylindrical, hollow, slightly ridged and hairy when young. The leaves, borne on stalks, are simple, alternate, and finely hairy; they have a tapered base and 3-7 pointed lobes with scalloped or toothed margins. The flower-heads look like sunflowers but have yellow centers. They are borne on long stalks, velvety beneath the heads, and are arranged in small groups at the ends of the branches. The fruit is a blackish hairy achene topped with a ring of scales and two awns.
Sixth photography: Marguerites are of the Argyranthemum Species. Marguerites have green, woody stems and typically produce dainty white flowers, though pink and yellow varieties also exist. The plants are usually around 60cm tall, although they can grow up to a metre in height if planted in suitable conditions.
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Wow excellent. I will edit my post later today to include this information with credit to you.
Hi @waggy Thank you very much. That's very kind of you. You did a good job. Just like an allegory to the earth and the beautiful flowers born of it.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!!!
I should ask, what was your source for the information you provided so I can cite correctly?
Hi @waggy6 For detailed information about plants and flowers is available on the websites: http://www.gardenhobbies.com/ or http://gardenersnet.com/ .
The quality and content of the web sites are at the level of the better web sites, the best sites about many kinds of flowers, plants, efforts to combat pests affecting crops and forest species and these are all constantly being updated.
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