Our native Chokecherry (Aronia arbutifolia) grows wild in the ditches on my farm. It's a very tall and slender shrub that still manages to have four season interest. The pink buds look like apple tree bloom buds and the mauve stamens add an extra element of beauty to the clusters of delicate cream-colored flowers.
Isn't she cute? Native bee on Eastern redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Anemone coronaria
Last hurrah for Georgia blue speedwell, growing among the leaves of white wood aster.
Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
Hi! I'm visiting through Adventures In My Garden. I, too, love the chokecherry (as well as all the other wonderful things blooming in your garden). (And yes, both the bee and the redbud are very cute!) Chokecherry is native here in Michigan, too, and it's on my wish list; you really have to look for it here (it's not impossible to find, but not all nurseries carry it), so I laughed to read you have many growing in ditches. I bet yours are gorgeous all in bloom at once!
ReplyDeleteHi Sweet Bay, lovely wild blooms. The chokecherry is loved by many birds too. As a kid my Grandmother made chokecherry jam and syrup. I've never seen pink bloom, only white.
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That speedwell has been blooming like forever! I love it. I have a chokecherry which is planted in the shade facing west. I am glad you said yours is tall and narrow as that is how my 'Brilliantissima' is growing. I thought because of the shade. It is doing well but would like more sun I think. I've run out of sun spaces! The bluebells are pretty!
ReplyDeleteMarnie-my mother also made chokecherry jelly-very good-way better than the berries!
ReplyDeleteI like the second picture with the bee on that cute flower. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about that cherry, it's a stunner! And lovely bluebells...waiting for mine to show.
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter!
Hi Alicia:-) I love your photo in the header of your blog...it's a Japanese Anemone, right? I have one just like it and it blooms into the fall. I can't wait until I see it again! I love your blossoms, and the bees!! I have Va Bluebells as well, but they haven't put out any blooms yet. I know they're getting ready, though!
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll have a Happy Easter and a Wonderful Spring;-) Jan
Hi Sweetbay! It is a lovely flowering shrub...it was the first native shrub I bought for c&l! It would prefer more moisture but over all it doesn't complain! It is wonderful that natives thrive on your land! it must be a joy to take a walk and turn a corner and see a Chokeberry in bloom. Of course I love the bees...keep 'em coming! Mine are being very shy and I cannot get near them to get a good closeup!
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend. gail
Beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteIf you have shrubs like that growing in your ditches... What do you have in your gardens? =) It's lovely!
ReplyDeleteWow, the Chokecherry is lovely! (As are the other pictures you show.)
ReplyDeleteAh, I do love your photos! It's such a pleasure visiting your blog!
ReplyDeleteI wish you a very Happy Easter!
Katarina
The first image with the bee is soo cute. Love seeing those little flying creatures on plants.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize that Chokeberry could be made into edible jams. lol The birds here don't seem to eat the fruits, maybe because there's so much Wax Myrtle and Hollies and Cedars around. The Cedar Waxwings stripped the American Holly near the horse pasture last weekend and I accidently deleted the pictures, drat it. About a half a dozen Bluebirds and a Mockingbird were in on it too.
ReplyDeleteJan the flower in the header is Rosa carolina. :)
Happy Easter!
I bought a chokeberry many years ago and it died in a drought. I should really replace it. What a great plant.
ReplyDeleteOh, that is all so beautiful. We have the redbuds, but not the other native beauties I think. You have a lot going on there for Blooming Friday.~~Dee
ReplyDeleteJust stopping by (again) to wish you a sweet day filled with love and gardening~and chocolate bunnies! gail
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