NYBG Native Plant Garden May 15, 2016

NPG Sunday, May 15, 2016

An extra trip to the Native Plant Garden to trail knowledgeable Joel on his 12:30 tour.  “What a difference a day makes...”  Three days after my tour on a lovely day, today was cold, 52 degrees, cloudy, very windy and damp with a few drizzles. Many people come on weekends and it is early in the Impressionist show; special shows bring in visitors.

Joel Nevis y Flores

Several today asked why they can’t learn online at home what tours are scheduled for what areas so they can plan ahead. We need to take action on this good idea.

No need to repeat the whole list of blooming plants from May 12th, but changes from that list could be helpful:

No more Globeflowers Troilus laxus to be seen. 

Four missing from May 12 list and still there today: 

 Scorpion Weed Phacelia [Flower color similar to Wild Geranium and Jacob’s Ladder, leaves similar to Wild Geranium but the flowers profuse and shapes different.]

 Golden Club Orontium seen in the highest area of the water feature which I may have missed earlier, an old favorite reminding me of a pencil, visible in the Old NPG looking off the wooden bridge over the creek.

 Green’nGold Chrisogonum is up the steps and along the earth path where I did not go on Thursday.

 Curlyhead Clematis ochraleuca was there but not on the list.

 Camas Camassia scilloides  Lavender bloom by water’s edge easy for me to mistake for Larkspur.

 Cornus sericea Red Osier Dogwood shrub with stripes in the leaves and a cluster of white flowers is seen in at least three different places.

Newly blooming :

Fringe Tree Chionanthus virginicus down the steps by the Education Building.

Wild Quinine Parthenium integrifolium to the right of the Split Rock

Ready to bloom :

Lance-leaved Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata

Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia

Unwanted plants waiting to be weeded: Garlic Mustard, Greater Celandine, Dandelions

Wild Hyacinth, Camassia scilloides

Wild Quinine Parthenium integrifolium

Scorpion Weed Phacelia

Green ’n Gold Chrisogonum virginianum

Curlyhead Clematis ochraleuca

Golden Club Orontium aquaticum

Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea 

Non-native, invasive plant:

Greater Celandine Chelidonium majus

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NPG May 12, 2016

New York Botanical Garden's Native Plant Garden - May 12, 2016

A beautiful, sunny day, temperature rising to reach 70 degrees. Many visitors wandering early through the Native Plant Garden, opportunity for brief conversations with 8 people, and finally 5 for a full tour. The listing today is based on plants as you turn to the right on the Gravel-Lok as you enter the NPG and follow around the meadow. Third week in a row that 50 or more (54 today) blooming plants are listed.

Wild Geranium

Golden Alexanders

Dogwood

Wild Bleeding Heart

Fairywand Chamaelirium luteum [as you begin the approach to the NPG entrance] 
      This was misidentified and is not corrected as Camassia scilloides Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth

Phlox

Blueberry

Wild indigo

Bluestar 

Shooting Star

Columbine

Foamflower 

Plume Solomon’s Seal

Yellow Trillium

Yellow Lady Slipper

Mayapple

Bluets

Azalea

Rhododendron 

Bellwort

[Keep an eye out passing Inkberry Ilex glabra for the 1/4” waxy flower worth using your magnifying glass]

White Trillium [turns pink with age; wish I did]
Wild Ginger

Jacob’s Ladder
Robin's Fleabane

Larkspur

White Trillium [double petals on cultivar stand out]

Celandine Poppy

Rue Anemone

Sedum

Red Trillium

Starry Solomon’s Seal

Azalea, Pinxter [in front of the Franklin tree]

Cinnamon Fern

Virginia Bluebells

Pitcher Plants, Yellow Trumpets and Red

Iris

Graves Beach Plum

Globeflower

Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea

Common Fleabane

Spiderwort

Prairie Smoke

Dwarf Beardtongue

Blue-eyed Grass

Green Hawthorne

Yellow Mandarin Prosartes

Black Chokeberry Aronia

Silverbell Halesia

Dwarf Crested Iris Iris cristata

Doghobble

Hairy Chickweed

American Umbrella
Viola walteri

Yellow Mandarin, Prosartes

Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum

Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth Camassia scilloides

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