This week's bloomlist for Wildflower Island is at the end of the post, and Bonnie's pictures from
about the same time in 2018 can be found HERE and in 2019 HERE. Peterson names are used
for consistency wherever possible, and comments and clarifications are welcome in the
comments section.
Having missed the growing season altogther in 2020, we started bloomlisting again, but a month late. Bonnie's turning her energies elsewhere for a while, but we're lucky to have years of her pictures to entice us back to the island. (Please go back to her originals in the links above, since these are a little fuzzy. From now on I'll crop the closeups rather than doing screenshots.)
As I am just getting started myself this week, I'll just put a few close-ups here of what we saw today. No special order, no science. Just enchantment.
The Canada Anemone and Jack-in-the-Pulpit were practically masked in a sea of Wild Geraniums today.
A Toadshade, just because it's wonderful ...
There's a spectacular patch of Wood-Betony on the western side of the Island you might miss if you don't know it's there. I made a special note of it on the bloomlist, though we usually only indicate first sightings, which in the case of the Betony, was much earlier, on the opposite side of the island.
Three Trilliums today: the Rosy and the Nodding hang below the leaves, the Large-flowered rises above.
Here's some close-ups of the Yellowroot, even though they were a little more lively last week.
The Black Huckleberry and the Lowbush Blueberry are really very different animals.
And as you're leaving the island, look way up to see the remaining blooms of the Cucumber Magnolia.
Couldn't resist including this surprising half minute of wonderment someone sent me, by the artist Johannes Stötter.
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