A note on April flowers

[DWill]

Flowers have a particularly high status in poetry. I don't know whether we need a theory to explain this. Anyway, I was fortunate to come across a trillium "avatar" in the gallery and am using it, as you can see. Around the end of this month, in a state preserve about 20 minutes from my house, the trillium (trillia?)begin to bloom, an estimated 6 million plants, the largest single colony known in the U.S., I'm told. It's an amazing sight. Anyone else have some favorite April or spring wildflowers?

[Saffron]

Virginia blue bells!
DWill: They are blooming right now along Castleman Rd, in your very own county. I had to laugh when I saw your new avatar -- I had it up for about 1/2 day a few weeks back; I just can't stay away from the poppies though.

[DWill]

Right, there are great sweeps of those along the river at this time. By June, even the foliage has disappeared, explaining why these are called ephemerals.

[Saffron]

A Red, Red Rose
by Robert Burns

O my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O my luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
O I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve,
And fare thee weel awhile!
And I will come again, my luve,
Though it were ten thousand mile.

[MaryLupin]

Me, I'm a hyacinth fan. I used to dream of them as a teen - even their smell. Sometimes, even in winter, I get a smell-echo of them, and it is always followed a wave of feeling - like I was swimming in yellow sound. Cool.

I also really like poppies and plain old daisies but they are more of a summer flower.

[Saffron]

Me, I'm a hyacinth fan. I used to dream of them as a teen - even their smell. Sometimes, even in winter, I get a smell-echo of them, and it is always followed a wave of feeling - like I was swimming in yellow sound. Cool.

I've never really liked the way hyacinths looked, but as a little girl I loved the way they smelled -- smelling them was like eating candy. Their fragrance was one of the things about Easter I looked forward to each year.

[DWill]

Me, I'm a hyacinth fan. I used to dream of them as a teen - even their smell. Sometimes, even in winter, I get a smell-echo of them, and it is always followed a wave of feeling - like I was swimming in yellow sound. Cool.

I've never really liked the way hyacinths looked, but as a little girl I loved the way they smelled -- smelling them was like eating candy. Their fragrance was one of the things about Easter I looked forward to each year.

I'm not familiar with hyacinths as a wildflower. Do we have them down here in my area? I know about the vine called Hyacinth Bean, which is said to be Thos. Jefferson's favorite plant, growing all over his garden at Monticello. I like the botanical name, too, dolichos lab lab.

Whenever I visit Colorado in July, I'm struck by how impoverished we in the East are for wildflowers, by comparison.

[Suzanne]

I love the flowering trees. First, the cherry, then the crab apple, then the dogwood. One year all three bloomed at once, beautiful site, especially since I do not suffer from allergies!

My favorite spring flowers are the jumping and leaping ones. This year I have noticed that my daffidils are leaping into my tulips, and my tulips are jumping into my daffidils. I also have one lonely white tulip that has infiltrated the purple tulip colony. I didn't realize that tulips could be so mobile. I guess they have a mind of their own, smart flowers. Maybe I should be scared.

Suzanne

[Saffron]

I'm not familiar with hyacinths as a wildflower. Do we have them down here in my area?

Who said anything about hyacinths being a wildflower? Colorado sounds lovely!

[MaryLupin]

I didn't realize that tulips could be so mobile. I guess they have a mind of their own, smart flowers. Maybe I should be scared.

Maybe we should write a zombie movie but give it a new twist by making the zombie maker tulips instead of a virus. We could have sneaky tulips peering around a zombie's head as the flower has the zombie head off to new and fertile ground. All the resultant dead humans are only a side benefit.