Variously called Mediterranean Bells, Sicilian Honey Garlic, and several other names, this is a member of the onion genus valued more for its showy and interesting tricolored flowers than for its flavor.
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Allium siculum
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The First Daylily
Every year we bring you this early daylily, which came from an unnamed hybrid seedling. Here it is again, blooming today.
This picture is not an artistic masterpiece, but it does demonstrate the interesting fact that this daylily is blooming before the tulips have faded.
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Lily of the Valley
Convallaria majalis is a popular planting everywhere, and it persists and spreads indefinitely once planted. These are semi-wild descendants of a planting in Beechview that is at least decades old.
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Double Tulip
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Redbuds at Chatham University
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Bracket Fungus and Lichens
Bracket fungus growing out of a sawn branch along the Trillium Trail in Fox Chapel.
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Fiddlehead
Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) frond unfurling in the woods.
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Redbud
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Lilac Time
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Tulips
