NPG May 21, 2015

Cloudy and cool, hooray. Mostly gardeners on the tour and they stayed the one hour and forty minute tour. About 40 blooming plants plus pulled out Garlic Mustard and Mugwort. Notice the Celandine Poppy look-alike, Greater Celandine, which is an invasive alien that they should remove.  Looking down close to the raised path (where the Spring Beauty, Jeffersonia, Trout Lily was) you can show people what Poison Ivy looks like.

These are listed (more or less) as you go counterclockwise from the NPG entrance. If it would help to list the “stories” about these plants, let me know if I should include some with the listings.

Wild Bleeding Heart

Wild Geranium

Golden Alexanders

Wild Yellow indigo Baptisia

Wild Blue Indigo

Columbine

Bowmans Root Gillenia trifoliatus

Fairywand Chamaelirium luteum

Narrow leaf blue-eyed grass  Close to bloom

Blueberry

Bluestar

Shooting Star

Foamflower

False Solomon’s Seal

Yellow Trillium

Lady Slipper

American Umbrellaleaf 

Bluets

Trillium (nodding, grandiflora, hybrid double)

Larkspur

Solomon’s Seal

Rue Anemone

Wild Ginger

Trillium sessile (red)

Phlox

Jacob’s Ladder

Cinnamon Fern

Royal Fern

Azaleas (pinkster or ‘marydel’)

Virginia Bluebells

Pitcher Plants yellow and red

Rhododendron

Common Rush Juncus effusus 

Wild Quinine

Spiderwort (If you have your magnifying glass, get the visitors to look at the central part of the flower)

Cow Vetch

Prairie Smoke

Red Clover

Dwarf Beardtongue 

Winter King (tree)

Queen Columbine 

Blue Iris