Wild Year for Wild Flowers
Wild Year for Wild Flowers
It all started when we went to Death Valley for the super bloom. The super bloom has just continued everywhere we have been so far this year. Going through Nebraska and South Dakota, there were flowers everywhere. I showed you photos of the Glacier Lily in Utah that were more numerous than I have ever seen. Going to Arizona last week was exactly the same. I have never seen more flowers, all over, than there are this year.
These beauties were in Prescott on one of the hikes I did. Prickly Poppy. They were so thin, and translucent.
These were in Prescott too. Evening Primrose, so beautiful.
This isn’t a flower, it’s just fuzzy lambs ear, but I love the texture of it.
Leaving Prescott and coming back to Utah we went through Page and the Navajo reservation. We’ve done this drive many times and I’ve never seen these pinkish, purplish flowers before, and they were everywhere. Against the red sand they were striking.
The other day I went walking with the pooches up the canyon here and saw these flowers. These were new to me also. And again, in an area I have walked many times.
Are the flowers going crazy where you live too?
It is a little early for wild flowers to be going crazy here – which is why I appreciate you sharing your lovely pictures :-) That second to last one reminds me of Phlox – I wonder if they are related?
I don’t know. The flower was similar but they were way taller. I googled all over trying to find out what that is. No luck yet.
We have garden phlox that get 3 feet tall – I can’t tell how tall the ones in your photo are :-)
Oh, you bet our flowers are going crazy and WE are going crazy as well over them! The peonies, my goodness, we are having a peony fever going around! Lovely Mary. LOVELY!
Oh I love peonies!!
No….we haven’t had any of our flowers go crazy this year…in fact some of them didn’t even bloom. We are thinking that the strange up and down temps we have had may have had something to do with it! These photos you have taken are absolutely GORGEOUS!!! LOVE!!
I guess the weather in the west has been perfect for flowers.
They are so marvelous this year!
These are beautiful wildflower photos, Mary! We have had a great year for wildflowers. It started early March and went on through May, and they were everywhere… :) I just love, love it! :)
Its been a long beautiful flowering spring in Tennessee!!
Gorgeous! We have those Matilija poppies in the canyons here. I LOVE them! They almost look like someone made them out of crepe paper. Great photos! Used to have some lambs’ ears in my yard. Of course I killed them. :)
I can’t say there are any more flowers than normal here, but they’re all looking very healthy. I love your photos – every photo I looked at I thought “Oooo, that’s my favorite!” but now they’re all my favorites!! LOL The nearly transparent petals on the first flower are stunning, I’m always amazed at how hardy such delicate looking flowers can be. And that last flower – WOW! I really love that.
The flowers are starting to bloom here. I love it! Primroses are one of my favorites! I just planted my sunflower seeds last week and I can’t wait for them to bloom in a few months!
Beautiful flowers. Our flowers are going wild here too. We’ve had a perfect mix of cool/hot weather combined with rain.
Those are some really great photos. Too many people don’t take the time to look around.
We’re currently at the Tetons (staying at Gros Ventre) and the flowers are everywhere. I’m in love!
I hope they are still blooming when we get there.
They are going crazy both here and in the Utah desert. I saw that last flower near Moab, and I couldn’t figure out what it is. Do you know? It’s not in any of my books. I love all your photos but especially that last one!
I don’t know what the last one is. I have tried to find it with google with no success. I don’t know what the pink one in the desert is either. I can’t find them.
What a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Beautifully captured with some lovely colours and tones.
I just love flowers too. Our new home has all kinds of them, many I don’t recognize so it’s been so much fun to wait for them to open up and see what we get!