Monday, April 11, 2011

My garden photo of the day: 4/11/11


Bluebells—one of my favorite woodland flowers—are just breaking out into bloom. This flower takes me back to my childhood, when I remember it blooming in the little border garden next to our house. I've been propagating it in our yard—next to wild ginger—and am so happy to see it blooming gloriously.

3 comments:

Shammickite said...

Are yuou sure this is a bluebell? It looks like lungwort or pulmonaria to me. It's definitely not the British version of a bluebell.

Laura McGowan said...

Yes, here it is called Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica) but also, less commonly, lungwort oysterleaf. Maybe just a different name for the same plant.

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