Yesterday I took a look where the Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) usually come up and sure enough, there they were. Just as I expected. Little purplish-green leaves coming up through the soil.
Given 3 or 4 weeks and this is what the plants will look like. They bloom for about 3 weeks.
What a splendid way to celebrate spring.
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Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica), herbaceous perennials, native to eastern North America. Painting its landscape with rich yummy purple, fading to pink and eventually turning to a lovely soft blue as its flowers mature.
A beautiful palette for spring, April and May.
By midsummer the blooms are gone, the plants disappear into the leaf litter of the woods. Gone until early next spring when the purples, pinks and blues emerge to paint the landscape all over again.
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This wasn’t found until I was back to my cabin, checking on the photographs. Buds on the Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica).
Virginia Bluebells, a herbaceous perennial plant, generally blooms at the beginning of April.
A variety of bees, butterflies, skippers and hummingbird moths help to pollinate the flowers.
A spring ephemeral. By mid-summer the above ground portions of the plant, the stems and leaves, will fade and disappear. Leaving the tap root to prepare for the next spring.
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