Spring Beauties!
I don’t know about you, but once spring has sprung my my area I have a really hard time staying indoors! So we’ve headed out several times over the last week to experience nature at local parks. I have so many things to share, but for today’s post I’d like to focus in on one particular experience we had. We explored a dirt trail that we hadn’t been down yet at one of the parks. What a wonderful thing we found! Here was the entrance leading back the trail. My older daughter and I both agreed that it looked like an entrance into a magical forest!
And when we got to the back part of the trail we all gasped at the beauty. The woods floor was carpeted with Spring Beauty wildflowers!
These tiny, delicate flowers come out very early in spring on the wood’s floor to catch the sun’s rays before the leaves fill in a canopy overhead.
They are such a welcome sight in spring, with their oval white petals with candy pink stripes. And don’t you just love the beautiful pink anthers?
I know that Spring Beauties won’t be in bloom for long and then they’ll be gone for another year, so we took plenty of time to enjoy them.
Here are “my spring beauties” having fun collecting bunches of these beautiful wildflowers. We will be pressing some of these for our nature journals.
Oh, please don’t miss out on these beautiful moments with your children in nature this spring!
Your pictures that show the ground look just like our yard all around the house right now. We don’t have a lawn because of all the oaks that surround the house and we don’t have the fortitude to try and put in fescue, so spring beauties it is for now. We also battle moles all spring, summer, and fall….the dogs tear up what lawn we have (where bermuda is growing). Since we just don’t have time for it (lawn) we let it go and just try to keep whatever is growing out there mowed to keep the ticks at bay. But you’re right the spring beauties, johnny jump-ups, and bluets are pretty
. We’ve already been gathering up wildflowers for 4H, too. Yesterday we ran by the extension office to get our 4H mounting cards to put in their notebooks. I’m excited. It’s funny, I often think of you when we’re out gathering our flowers. I can honestly say I don’t know anyone that gets as excited about this kinda stuff as you, LOL!
Blessings, Julie
Hi Julie! I think wildflowers make a perfectly lovely “grass” alternative! Yes, you are correct in saying that I get pretty revved up about wildflowers! Well, just about anything in nature can get me going!
Thanks for your comment, have a wonderful week!