Up Close and Personal
Flower Series
Wildflowers & flora of the Southeast Georgian Bay Area.
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Butterfly Series
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Splendens Tiger Lillies The first Asian lily to reach North American gardens, this sturdy, salmon-orange turk’s-cap is tough, easy, and a cottage garden classic. Tigrinum Splendens Sumac in the Fall The Stag-horn sumac is the most well-known sumac. The stems and fruits of the stag-horn sumac are densely hairy as in the 'velvet stage' of the stag's antlers. These colourful shrubs or small trees form bright splashes of colour along forest margins, road banks & fence rows.Black Eyed Susans in the MeadowPurple Coneflower - Echinacea Echinacea, commonly called the purple coneflower, has historically been used in North America by it's indigenous people as one of their medicinal herbs. Traditionally it was used in an aid against the common cold, toothache, burns, sores, psoriasis."Frosted Lanterns" The Chinese Lantern plant is a member of the nightshade family, related to tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. The plant is valued for it's inflated orange-red seed covering husks which resemble chinese lanterns.Wet Pine NeedlesThe white trillium has been Ontario's provincial floral emblem since 1937. It's white blossom is associated with peace and hope. The plant populations will form colonies but these do not expand rapidly and take 15 years to flower after the seed germinates. Hyacinth in the Spring According to Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a beatiful youth loved by Apollo. He was killed accidently by a discus thrown by the god. In another telling of the legend, the wind god Zephyr, out of jealousy, blew the discus to kill Hyacinthus. Out of his blood sprang a floweMaple Leaf Show your prideLilacs in May Lilac wood has traditionally been used for engraving, musical instruments, knife handles etc. When drying, the wood has a tendency to be encurved as a twisted material, and to split into narrow sticks. The wood of Common Lilac is even harder .
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