Surrounded By Wildflowers

The walk to the garden is always lovely this time of year...the road is lined with a variety of wildflowers that splash the roadside with brightness.  I've shared photos of Jewelweed before, here are a couple more blooms I really enjoy, especially up close.

This is Tall Ironweed...it grows to be 5 to 9 feet tall and they grow here and there, but not in large bunches...

...and has an abundance of these little pink blooms on the top of the tall stem.

...Pipevine Swallowtails love them!

 My favorite part of the bloom is the little curlycue at the end of some of the flower petals...

This is Great Lobelia...it grows about 2 to 3 feet high and in small bunches of stalks...

 ...they remind me a little of orchids...

The thistles are beginning to bloom but they haven't "pinked up" yet.  We also have Joe Pie Weed, but it's growing in the middle of all kinds of brush and I'm not interested in walking through all that to get a picture...poison ivy and snakes are sure to be present!

What are your favorite wildflowers?

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Lise