On Sunday, March 8, friend Paul Sullivan hiked through our woods with us and kindly took photos of the Columbia (tiger) lilies that had sprung up since my last trip down there on March 5. My camera was not cooperating... turned out that I had not replaced the card after uploading the last batch of photos to the computer!
Here it is on March 25, after I put the card back in my camera...
Paul also took pics on March 8 of the possible-lily that I've had caged to protect it from deer because it gets devoured by something every year and never blooms.
To my great surprise, on March 10, just two days after Paul's photos, that plant had a bud!! This is the first time ever it has managed to get that far. With camera card in, I took photos. I also put dog hair around it, and also around the Columbia (tiger) lilies along the path, to deter deer. They don't like that predator smell and that has helped save my Alaska Yellow Cedar from bucks rubbing their antlers on them in the fall.
The single leafed plant near this mystery flower still has a single leaf. Another wee single leaf has popped up in the ground behind it. You can just barely see behind and left of the big leaf in the photo below. (Still looked like this on March 25.)
On March 25, the Fritillaria lanceolata (for that's what Howard Bruner says it is) had added stripes to its bud. And outgrown the cage. I will take more dog hair down...
I saw the very first wood violet in bloom on March 10.
A few Western Trillium are blooming.
But the Sessile Trillium are still just in bud...
On March 25, I also walked through the Ash swamp and saw apparent iris. I don't remember seeing iris there before. I'll watch for them to bloom later in the spring.
In our little creek, the skunk cabbage is blooming... a sure sign it's spring.
