I just love the pink Mountain Laurel.
Friday, July 8, 2011
More Wild Flowers of Nova Scotia
I don't have a favorite flower, but if I had to choose, irises would be contenders. I spotted these, my first wild iris sighting, a few days ago at Card Lake. I was not expecting to find these, so it was a plesant surprise.
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i love love love 'snake flowers' (the purple wild irises) as we called them. my favourite flowers :) Interestingly enough, we also used to call Tiger Lillies 'Ditch flowers' as they typically grow in the ditches around home (south shore NS).
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I'd agree with you about irises, Grace - that shape is just so extravagantly beautiful. And very Laurentian too.
ReplyDeleteEco-yogini: 'snake flowers' well that's a new one to me! I think these are blue-flag irises, but not sure. I also call tiger lilies ditch lilies, although I prefer the former (sounds more fierce than ditch). I have a good supply of them. Did you know that tiger lilies were edible?
ReplyDeleteSolitary Walker: Irises are a bit ostentatious, aren't they? Probably one of the most exotic-looking wild flowers in these parts.
I love the irises too...I noticed the pink Mountain Laurel growing everywhere throughout the woods last weekend when we biked through Poppie's old woodlo,t but didn't know what it was called. I too took pictures and planned to look it up but now I don't have to...thanks.
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