Green caterpillar on Balsamroot
Elephant Ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Hellebore beauty
Backlit beauties
Purple Rain
Indian Breadroot
One of my favourite spring garden flowers
After the rain
Hepatica
Early Cinquefoil
Snake's Head Fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
Colour
Periwinkle / Vinca minor
The joy of spring
Much-needed colour
Dandelions - of course : )
03 Blowing in the wind
Red Baneberry
Snake's head fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Is this a Pink?
Striped Coralroot / Corallorhiza striata
Flowers of spring
The purity of white
Gaillardia on red
Dame's rocket
Cow Parsnip / Heracleum maximum
Hollyhock buds
Needed a change of colour
Spotted Coralroot / Corallorhiza maculata
Red-edged petals
Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion…
Tattered and torn - and still beautiful
Iris at Olds College Botanical Gardens and Wetland…
Forest refractions on a wet Dandelion : )
Wild Rose in the rain
False Dandelion / Hypochaeris radicata
Yellow lady's-slipper
Gaillardia
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa
Fleabane
Kalm's Lobelia / Lobelia kalmii
Ladybug larva on Showy Milkweed
Pinedrops / Pterospora - rare, Listed S2
A delicate shade of pink
Wildflowers galore at the Bison Paddock
Stately Bear Grass
Paintbush, with a visiting Crab Spider
Bracted Honeysuckle / Lonicera involucrata
Orange False Dandelion / Agoseris aurantiaca
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Sticky Purple Geranium / Geranium viscosissimum
Bold and beautiful
Bear Grass / Xerophyllum tenax
Roadside wild sunflowers
Thimbleberry / Rubus parviflorus
02 Colourful Dock sp.
Mariposa Lily
Old cabin on Gottlob Schmidt's (Schmitty's) land
Purple Prairie Clover
White Evening Primrose / Oenothera caespitosa
White Prairie Clover / Dalea candida
Beauty of spring
Art of nature
Hoverfly on European Pasque Flower
Physoclaina orientalis
Physoclaina orientalis
Candy-striped Tulip
Pink Hellebore
Canada Wild Ginger / Asarum canadense
Delicate Iris
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Siberian Squill
My first sighting of the season
Bright and cheery
Petunia
Beehive Ginger / Zingiber spectabile
Hanging on to the old
Hepatica
Colours made for each other
Pink Monkeyflower / Mimulus lewisii
Giant Scabius with purple bokeh
Window box at Reader Rock Garden
A touch of Fireweed
Spider on Strawflower
Beauty lasts
Delicate Damselfly
Pink Sundae / Salvia viridis
Floral beauty
Popular with the Aphids
Tropical - cultivar of Tillandsia ionantha?
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Siberian Squill
A little corner of Reader Rock Garden
Datura flower?
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Another day closer
02 Mountain Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium montanum
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Tall Lungwort / Mertensia paniculata
Springtime colour
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Poppy art
Delicate colours of summer
Dianthus sp.
Embracing the sun
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Primula denticulata / Drumstick Primula
Vibrant
Busy little bee
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Remembering the warmth of summer
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Get well, Rachel
Another day closer to spring
Lily macro
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Summer Iris display
Fancy 'Cat's Cradle'
Cornflower
Elegant beauty
Face to the sun
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Golden Bean / Thermopsis rhombifolia
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Yesterday afternoon, 4 May 2016, I had a volunteer shift and then thought I might call in at the Reader Rock Garden. Changed my mind when I discovered that new road construction was taking place at the very first corner I was going to take, so I couldn't turn right. Instead, I called in at Fish Creek Park to check on the family of Great Horned Owls. Only saw one of the two owlets and there was no activity at all while I was there - a friend did see both after I left. Isn't that always the way, lol?
I so rarely get photos of Wood Ducks, as when I do see one, it is almost always way off in the distance. Yesterday, however, I was lucky enough to see a pair of them, as well as a pair of American Wigeon, all close enough to photograph.
Photographed these nearby bright Golden Bean flowers, also called Buffalo Bean. This is one of our earliest spring flowers and they are everywhere at the moment, splashing the landscape with vibrant colour.
"It is also called the Buffalo Bean. It was named the Buffalo Bean by Blackfoot because this flower bloomed as the buffalo moved to their summer grazing grounds." From the Cross Conservation Area.
"A member of the pea family, it grows in grassland, hillsides, and patchy woodland areas to a height of about 30 cm, and produces bright yellow golden flowers about a centimetre long. The flowers were commonly used by the natives as a source of yellow dye and were boiled in a tea as a cure for stomach ailments for people and horses. The plant has toxic properties if ingested; symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, dizziness, and abdominal pain." From Wikipedia.
I so rarely get photos of Wood Ducks, as when I do see one, it is almost always way off in the distance. Yesterday, however, I was lucky enough to see a pair of them, as well as a pair of American Wigeon, all close enough to photograph.
Photographed these nearby bright Golden Bean flowers, also called Buffalo Bean. This is one of our earliest spring flowers and they are everywhere at the moment, splashing the landscape with vibrant colour.
"It is also called the Buffalo Bean. It was named the Buffalo Bean by Blackfoot because this flower bloomed as the buffalo moved to their summer grazing grounds." From the Cross Conservation Area.
"A member of the pea family, it grows in grassland, hillsides, and patchy woodland areas to a height of about 30 cm, and produces bright yellow golden flowers about a centimetre long. The flowers were commonly used by the natives as a source of yellow dye and were boiled in a tea as a cure for stomach ailments for people and horses. The plant has toxic properties if ingested; symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, dizziness, and abdominal pain." From Wikipedia.
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