If you look very carefully by the sides of the road, you might see a Pear Cactus growing in the beach grass. I saw this one (and another) walking down the road to Boat Meadow Beach.
Such a pretty and delicate flower!
If you look very carefully by the sides of the road, you might see a Pear Cactus growing in the beach grass. I saw this one (and another) walking down the road to Boat Meadow Beach.
Such a pretty and delicate flower!
The Scarlet Pimpernel growing on the sides of the trail at Fort Hill are absolutely stunning this year! (Click on blog link for other photo.)
I have seen a few of them over the years at Fort Hill, but only small, little clumps of them with 2-3 flowers. As you can see in the 2nd photograph, this was a pretty big bush of them.
Two interesting facts that I Iearned: 1. “The Scarlet Pimpernel flowers open only when the sun shines, and even close in overcast conditions.” 2. “If consumed, it can be toxic to livestock and humans. Toxicity level ranges from virtually nontoxic to fatally toxic and appears to correlate with summer rainfall levels.”
Have you seen the Scarlet Pimpernel at Fort Hill?
We were driving down the road when I saw a flash of white in the grass by the side of the road. I told Phil to stop the car and I ran out … was I in for a treat for there was a “bouquet” of Star of Bethlehem wildflowers growing in the middle of the grass. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
The “Star of Bethlehem is a winter bulb belonging to the Lily family, and blooms in late spring or early summer.” You can see the “star” in the center of the flower in the 2nd photograph.
Have you ever seen this delicate little flower?
There were so many pink Lady Slippers blooming along the Beech Forest Trail in Provincetown, I couldn’t decide which photograph I liked best. How often do you get to see 4 of these beauties next to each other in a row? What a treat!
Have you seen any Lady Slippers this summer?
The beautiful deep purple Lupine wildflowers are blooming and gorgeous at Fort Hill. It is such a pretty photograph with Nauset Marsh in the background, don’t you think?
And… if you’re there and look very closely way in the background, you can see two beautiful pink Lupine. So pretty…