These are one of the first flowers to bloom in the late winter, and they’re in bloom right now. More pictures are over at Flora Pittsburghensis.
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Persian Speedwells Are Blooming Right Now
Canon PowerShot SX20 IS.
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Pumpkin Blossoms
You have to get up early in the morning to catch pumpkin blossoms at their peak. They’re spectacularly huge, but they start to wither as soon as the sun comes out. Here are two from a city garden that by this time of the year is mostly pumpkin vines.
Nikon COOLPIX P100.
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Butterfly Weed and Little Black Bees
Tiny black bees (probably some species of Chelostoma, but the entomologically inclined are earnestly invited to correct us) enjoying flowers on two slightly different shades of Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa).
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Daylilies After the Rain
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Pumpkin Blossom in the Rain
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Another Look at Shakespeare’s Honeysuckle
We saw Lonicera periclymenum last year, and it’s blooming again, so we can take another look. This is what Shakespeare meant by “honeysuckle,” and unlike the closely related Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), this one is a polite guest that doesn’t take over whole counties.
Nikon COOLPIX P100.
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Pink Horse-Chestnut
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Rhododendron
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The Earliest Daylily
Father Pitt will not claim that this is the earliest daylily in Pittsburgh. But it blooms about this time every year, as the tulips and trilliums are fading, and when very few other daylilies are to be seen. Most daylilies bloom in June and afterward. This one was an unnamed hybrid seedling planted many years ago; it has since formed a big clump.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.
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Korean Lilac
A slightly later bloomer than the common dooryard lilac, the compact Korean Lilac (Syringa pubescens subsp. patula) is also more intensely scented.
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z6.
