Roadside Wildflowers - June 23
A couple of May wildflowers revisited
Wild Strawberries
How about a wild strawberry fly? Well that’s all you’re going to get. I’m eating the berries myself.
Was it over a month already? Back on May 16 I found wild strawberries in bloom. Today I found the Strawberries only a day or two away from being at their peak ripeness. They were pretty sweet already but not yet drooling ripe.
Too bad they’re so small - no wonder these strawberries need a short cake. Not that any would ever make it home. The best container to use when picking is my mouth.
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Red Baneberry
It’s been just over a month since the Red Baneberry was in full bloom. While some berries are still green others are close to being ripe. Both of these berry clusters are from the same spot but different plants.
And well not actually roadside they are only a few feet off my driveway. (You didn’t think I’d drive back to the spot the flower photos were taken with the price of gas these days - did you?)
June 24th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Great idea to show the plants then & now. I still have to wait a bit for the berries of Blue Cohosh to turn blue before I can do the same.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Ah wild strawberries — a sweeter tasting berry you cannot find. As a kid we picked these for hours so Mom could make a good strawberry shortcake dinner. With 7 kids, that meant alot of berries. Today I’m with Wiseacre, into the mouth and no other container needed.
Great photos — thanks for reminding me to go out and look for the berries now — I too have photos of the flower