REVISITING 2016 FLOWERING MASSACHUSETTS

 May 25th to June 1st 2016
Massachusetts
Wildflower Meadow

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Buttercup

Wood Anemone

Forget-me-not

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Bleeding Heart

http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/scene9f1f.html
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Phlox

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Bees love Phlox

Phlox loves bees

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlox
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Native Iris - blue flag

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White Iris

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rihttp://www.americanmeadows.com/about-irises

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Discovered growing wild along the roadside
Greater celandine is a perennial herb with an erect habit, and reaches 30 to 120 cm high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelidonium

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Wild Geranium

grows in partial shade

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium

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Dandelion
Root and leaf is good Food

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/d/dandel08.html

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BEWARE
the Scarlet Lilly Beetle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_lily_beetle
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The hard Winter meant fewer buds and flowers

Rhododendron

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Foxglove
a potent Medicine

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis
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Two Poems by Ryokan Taigu

1.
Wild roses,
Plucked from fields
Full of croaking frogs:
Float them in your wine
And enjoy every minute!

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2.

When all thoughts
Are exhausted
I slip into the woods
And gather
A pile of shepherd’s purse.

 https://youtu.be/8czB51G1iRQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsella_bursa-pastoris

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ADDITIONAL LINKS
http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual-and-devotional-poets/buddhist/ryokan/
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http://grownative.org/native-plant-info/plant-picker/
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