North of Somewhere 🇺🇦Spring flowers
📷 Canon R6 | 🎞️ Digital | 📍 Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, MN
Today the Star Tribune reminded me that lady’s slippers - Minnesota’s state flower - are starting to bloom. One of the places they recommended was Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, not far from Minneapolis.
I hadn’t been there before, so I went. The garden was charming, though a few trails (the ones where lady’s slippers are supposed to grow) were closed. So no state flower for me but I did find plenty of other wildflowers. And I liked the place enough to want to come back.
Plus, there are a bunch of bike trails nearby, so plenty left to explore.
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Wildflowers spotted :
Photo 1: wood poppy (🇺🇦UA: лісовий мак)
Photo 2: wild columbine (🇺🇦UA: орлики канадські)
Photo 3: trillium (🇺🇦UA: триліум)
Photo 4: Common blue violet (?) (🇺🇦UA: фіалка блакитна)
Photo 5: virginia bluebells (🇺🇦UA: вірджинські дзвіночки)
Photo 6: not sure
Photo 7: canada violet (канадська фіалка)
#Wildflowers #SpringFlowers #MinnesotaNature #NatureWalks #ForestFloor #UrbanNature #MinneapolisTrails #NatureLovers #DigitalPhotography #NatureBeauty #FlowerSpotting #ExploreMinnesota
#mnastodon #Minnesota #Photo #Photography #Nature #Plants
📷 Canon R6 | 🎞️ Digital | 📍 Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, MN
Today the Star Tribune reminded me that lady’s slippers - Minnesota’s state flower - are starting to bloom. One of the places they recommended was Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, not far from Minneapolis.
I hadn’t been there before, so I went. The garden was charming, though a few trails (the ones where lady’s slippers are supposed to grow) were closed. So no state flower for me but I did find plenty of other wildflowers. And I liked the place enough to want to come back.
Plus, there are a bunch of bike trails nearby, so plenty left to explore.
⸻
Wildflowers spotted :
Photo 1: wood poppy (🇺🇦UA: лісовий мак)
Photo 2: wild columbine (🇺🇦UA: орлики канадські)
Photo 3: trillium (🇺🇦UA: триліум)
Photo 4: Common blue violet (?) (🇺🇦UA: фіалка блакитна)
Photo 5: virginia bluebells (🇺🇦UA: вірджинські дзвіночки)
Photo 6: not sure
Photo 7: canada violet (канадська фіалка)
#Wildflowers #SpringFlowers #MinnesotaNature #NatureWalks #ForestFloor #UrbanNature #MinneapolisTrails #NatureLovers #DigitalPhotography #NatureBeauty #FlowerSpotting #ExploreMinnesota
#mnastodon #Minnesota #Photo #Photography #Nature #Plants
Graham James