Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) is one of my favorite spring wildlowers. The cool blue-green foliage is attractive, but it's the flowers, especially the color combinations provided by the pink buds and blue flowers in the same raceme that really get me excited. I think you'll see what I mean when you view this sequence of three pictures I took of the same plant growing in the garden, one each day, starting on March 26.
Mertensia virginica
3 comments:
You are so right - the pink and blue combination IS beautiful. Picture #2 was taken on my beautiful, half bloomed daughter's 15th birthday. It makes me think of her :)
We love the bluebells around here, too! My daughter, with a look of wonder on her face and a hand to her ear: "I can almost hear them ringing!"
Blue bells are amazing. I love plants that do their thing and then disappear. Of course that makes them hard to find in nurseries, but no worries...eh?
Steve
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