A Woodland Walk

A walk through my tiny woodland garden yielded these views of flowers this morning:

The silver dollar plant is an annual remnant from the days before the area was re-wilded as an open woodland. The Carolina Allspice is native to the regions to the south of us, but is native to the Eastern US.

Over the years, I introduced plants into the woodland garden, but some have become complete surprises. The Yellow Ragwort is a native that first appeared on its own last year. This year it bloomed. It’s always interesting when nature begins to take over your project. Just because you plant it doesn’t mean it will thrive. The surprise factor is one of the things that makes this sort of gardening frustrating and rewarding.

The earliest ephemeral flowers, like trout lily, are already done, and ths later ones, like sweet pepper bush won’t flower until early summer. It’s interesting to walk through every day just to see the progress.