Bluets

These are 4-petaled tiny flowers that I found growing on my sister-in-law's backyard. The area where these are growing is sloping and shady with moss also growing on the ground.

Very interesting flower but very tiny and about 1/2 inch accross from tip of petal to the opposite tip of the flower petal.

The 2 1/2 to 3 inch flower stalk sprouts straight up from the ground.

Wild Flowers Last Fall and Winter 2009

(photo) Moss growing on the surface of a rock.




Photo of Wild Ginger surviving the cold weather and remaining green.

Humble Beginnings

Photo above is of Bitter Melon seedlings.

Photo below is of Yard long Bean seedlings.


These seedlings are planted in a recycled plastic water bottle. I cut the bottle in half and use the bottom as a drip pan and the other half as the seedling pot. The opening of the water bottle becomes the bottom of the seedling pot. I loosen the bottle cap so that excess water will drip onto the "drip pan", which use to be the bottom of the water bottle. I put a 16X11 plastic freezer bag over the seedling pots to keep moisture and humidity over the seeds. I then place several of these pots on my sunny window sills and voila! The seeds really started sprouting early even during the very cold spells in early march! I like to recycle things and this is one way to put those plastic water bottles to good use.

Wild Flowers of Early Spring

Name this flower. I borrowed the idea of this question from an old tv game show called "name that tune". I don't know the name of this wild flower and I appreciate if anyone can tell me its name. I found it growing on the side of the hill that was disturbed by roadwork and now overgrown with moss and all kinds of wild flowers.