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#FlowersOnFriday

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cohan

I was surprised/ excited the other day to find Western (Blue) Clematis growing a stone's throw from my fence, on the farm! I've seen it a couple of times before, but never right here- weird that I haven't spotted it till now, when it has clearly been there a few years- of course of out flower it would blend in with surrounding vegetation..
#BloomScrolling #FlowersOnFriday #wildflowers #NativePlants #nature#BorealForest #Alberta #Canada
YouTube video, #Spectra to follow
youtube.com/shorts/ajrV_3Xn2a8

This view: looking from slightly below a single flower on a vine which has climbed up a couple of metres. Background is blurred, with several spots of light between blurred foliage turned to light circles by the camera lens. A flower composed of 4 rather long narrow petal-like sepals (often called tepals) joined at the base, quite widely separated by the pointed tips. They are a light to medium violet colour with very 4-5 fine slightly darker violet veins running from base to tip. The flower faces downward, so those flaring sepals make a sort of very loose bell shape, with a dense tight cluster of white gold green tipped sexy bits underneath in the centre. Each flower is held on a slender stem which arches out and away from the vines which are green on new growth, turning brown on older parts.
This view: looking at an aspen poplar sucker which is a couple of metres, a little over 6 feet tall, mostly bare of leaves on its rather thin trunk, branched and leafy only in the top quarter or so. A vine of the Clematis has climbed this trunk and spread out through its leafy canopy, with 4 flowers scattered among the leaves. This is in focus while the background of various suckers/saplings and poplars small to medium and some spruce, is blurred. Foliage is still spring bright.
This view: wet green foliage clambering through spruce branches, all leaflets simple. Leaves are variable- random or depending on age of plant/stem? They emerge bronzy green and almost quilted looking, developing a lighter green. They are composed of 3 leaflets which may be simple pointed heart shaped or more irregular with variable lobes.
This view: a short section of vine, near ground level close to a tree trunk with moss and lichen, rising from leaf litter, some dry grass stems and a few bits of other green leaves. It ends in a single downward facing flower, which we see from above. Everything is rain wet. A flower composed of 4 rather long narrow petal-like sepals (often called tepals) joined at the base, quite widely separated by the pointed tips. They are a light to medium violet colour with very 4-5 fine slightly darker violet veins running from base to tip. The flower faces downward, so those flaring sepals make a sort of very loose bell shape, with a dense tight cluster of white gold green tipped sexy bits underneath in the centre. Each flower is held on a slender stem which arches out and away from the vines which are green on new growth, turning brown on older parts.
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cohan

@plants #FlowersOnFriday the first #wildflowers of the year (not counting the poplar + willow catkins which were earlier) appeared over the last 10 days with more things daily as we've had warm days into 20sC/ over 70F (average is 15C/59F and we've had cooler days as well +some nights near /below freezing).
Last week I saw the first violets. Pics here + Youtube link, #Spectra #Peertube link to follow
youtube.com/shorts/Ybqqyq3Zdl0
#spring #BloomScrolling #photography #Alberta #Canada #nature

Emerging from short grass a mix of dried and green,in even dull light, is a small violet plant. There are many leaves, heart shaped but still partly rolled up, and with gently toothed edges. There are a few green, violet tinged narrow buds, and one open violet coloured flower to lower right. Typical Viola flower composed of five petals, two upper, one on each side below and and one in the lower centre. The centre one has guidelines and bristly hairs on the sides where the petals come together to form a tube. This central petal is elongated beyond the face of the flower to form a spur out the back.
Emerging from short grass a mix of dried and green, is a small violet plant. The bright flowers and parts of the grass and debris catching the sun contrast with dark shadows near the soil. There are many leaves, heart shaped but still partly rolled up, and with gently toothed edges. Half a dozen scattered violet coloured flowers rise slightly above the leaves. Typical Viola flower composed of five petals, two upper, one on each side below and and one in the lower centre. The centre one has guidelines and bristly hairs on the sides where the petals come together to form a tube. This central petal is elongated beyond the face of the flower to form a spur out the back.
In dull overcast light, a patch of grass, mostly still dry from winter, with green gradually coming through, stronger in some spots, with a few low agricultural weeds such as clover and plantain. In addition there are some small native plants- tiny wild strawberry plants (none flowering in this view, but there were a couple of flowers) and early blue violet some with a few flowers, some just in bud. In lower left you can see part of my rubber boot clad left foot, the boot is a dull green, greyed with dust, with a light tan sole. This boot shows scale of thew plants: one of the violet plants is about half a foot from the boot, and whole plant with many emerging leaves and a couple of flowers is only about the size of the boot's toe area.
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cohan

More early #flowers still tiny, few and scattered, but they will pick up speed quickly, with the next couple of days forecast in the 20C/70F range (then down, then up...lol)- even *some* nights above freezing! The first golden Crocus, first Pseudomuscari barely a few cm tall and first Scilla, which probably came as seed in the soil with the Arabis you see at its base (pale/pink rosettes).
#FlowersOnFriday #BloomScrolling #florespondence #Alberta #Canada #spring #April #gardening #BulbFlowers

A wide open deep yellow Crocus flower held barely above ground over several narrow grassy leaves, green with a white stripe in centre. The 6 tepals are somewhat narrow, fused at the base but spreading farther out. The background is mixed gravel and slightly larger small stones.
A tiny stem of Grape Hyacinth/ Pseudomuscari azureum just a couple of inches/handful of cm tall, or less, with two narrow folded leaves and a single stem with light blue buds with some darker edges, and one tiny partly open bell flower at the bottom of the cluster. The background is a blurred rough brownish stone on the left, soil and dry leaves to the other side
A Scilla siberica /Siberian Squill with several deep blue buds and a couple of open starry downward facing, lighter blue with a dark stripe on the back of each petal (?)it has several narrow longish green leaves and sits against a slightly squared darkish granite rock. On the ground, even lower than this tiny plant are a number of rosettes of Arabis with variegated to nearly all white leaves with purply centres. There are also dry straw-like old stems and gravel on the ground.
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