Spiderwort, Why Does Thou Love My Garden So?

Spiderwort, Why Does Thou Love My Garden So?

wildflower wednesday

Spiderwort, oh spiderwort, why does thou love my garden so much?

I remember seeing you growing in my grandmother's garden many years ago, though I didn't really know your name back then. I was just a kid. I just thought your flowers were pretty.

Then one day, I saw you at garden center and I remembered grandma's garden. Oh, Tradescantia virginiana, you were more than willing to come home

Wildflower Wednesday - Buy Responsibly

Wildflower Wednesday - Buy Responsibly

wildflower wednesday

Great White Trilliums have been blooming in my garden for the last week or so. This lovely native wildflower goes by the name Trillium grandiflorum, which is easy to remember because these are definitely grand flowers.

Where did I get these wildflowers, you ask?

From a reputable company, Old House Gardens, who sources them from a nursery where they propagate them from their stock.

They do

Trout Lilies for Wildflower Wednesday

Trout Lilies for Wildflower Wednesday

wildflower wednesday

I went out to the garden today and walked around a bit, shivering on what is hopefully the last really cold day of early spring.

Thankfully, the sun was shining or that 39º  Fahrenheit would have felt a lot colder than it really was.

I saw a lot of weeds coming up, along with the foliage of many flowers yet to bloom.

Out under the honeylocust tree, I found the distinctly mottled leaves of

Witchhazel for Wildflower Wednesday

Witchhazel for Wildflower Wednesday

Humor wildflower wednesday

Which witchhazel do you have?

Which hazel? Like the maid on the old television comedy Hazel?

No.

Witchhazel.

That's what I asked. Which hazel?

The spring one.

Oh, the spring one.  Does she focus on spring cleaning?

No, she's a plant.

Oh, so not that Hazel?

No, witchhazel.

That's what I asked. Which hazel?

The plant one? What's she called?

Which hazel?

Are we asking about Hazel

Wouldn't hurt a fleabane

Wouldn't hurt a fleabane

wildflower wednesday

A little fleabane in the garden never hurt anything or anybody, and it's good for the pollinators.

Fleabane, Erigeron sp. is a native wildflower that just shows up here and there in my garden throughout the growing season. I think what grows in my garden is either Annual Fleabane, Erigeron annus or Daisy Fleabane, Erigeron strigosus.

Annual or Daisy, I rarely pull it out when it shows up

WIldflower Wednesday - August Dreams Garden

WIldflower Wednesday - August Dreams Garden

wildflower wednesday

My late summer-autumn blooming border is coming along nicely as we round the corner and head straight to the end of August.

I affectionately call this particular border August Dreams Garden because it is planted with mostly native plants that bloom in mid to late summer and early fall.  It's the most designed garden I have, and I try to stay true to the overall concept by planting mostly

Little Joe Pye Weed

Little Joe Pye Weed

wildflower wednesday

Little Joe Pye Weed is beginning to bloom in the August Dreams Garden border, just in time for Wildflower Wednesday, hosted by Gail at Clay and Limestone.

Little Joe Pye Weed, Eutrochium dubium 'Little Joe', only grows to about four feet, making it a great "back of the border" plant for late summer interest.

Pollinators love it to pieces.  When these flowers actually begin to open, they will