I love everything about this. I wish I could snap my fingers and be in that creek right now! Or maybe in the morning... Thanks for sharing, and I'm thankful for all the people who worked to preserve this special confluence of regions.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. My grandparents lived in Waleska and I often wonder what happened to their place. I’ll have to go back to find out. Wish it was preserved like Staraland!
I've got LOADS. Just learned that box turtles love the fruit, and transplanted some in a place easier for them to access. Here's hoping they take. They are so dang precious, aren't they?
I can hear it now. When Bill is walking his land, he is thinking of Ellen and decides that nothing would honor her more than preserving the trees, water, and flowers she loved. Their gift made sure all the students and others who value wild places would be forever welcomed there.
And thank you, Janisse, for always sharing words, thoughts, and photos.
Robert Frost wrote, “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to let you in.”
Beautiful, just beautiful. Having lived my whole life in the western US, your stories and photos of your lands, Janisse, are like being introduced to a foreign (in all the best aspects) land. The land and all she encompasses are so much different than what I am used to. Being able to see them, really see them, from your words and photos is almost as good as being there. Thank you.
Hello Janisse! Wonderful place. I wonder if I can visit there too? It is not far from me. Trilliums are notoriously difficult to identify due to their simple floral parts, yet great speciation. I was able to learn many from Dr. Vic Soucup, who studied them world-wide. We were on a Georgia Botanical Society Pilgrimage just last weekend so these two are fresh with me. The first (whiter one) looks to be Southern Nodding Wakerobin. It is the only nodding trillium where the flower stem is above the leaf attachments. The second has an even more whimsical name, Bashful Wakerobin. I thought it was called that because of the rosy (blushing) petals. Others say the flowers sometimes hide behind leaves or bracts. I think that is true of a lot of the trilliums! Saw more Southern Nodding Wakerobins and Small Jack-in-the-pulpits on a job site this week. Enjoy!
Oh, the Bashful Wakerobin (AKA Catesby's Trillium) turns out to be not so bashful. I learned from Hal Massie this weekend that it has the longest lasting blooms of any local Trillium species!
Looks like Trillium grandiflorum. After it's pollinated the petals turn pink as a signal for the insects that they can move along. Catesby's trillium is a smaller pink trillium you could look up. Sometimes it's hard to know the scale on photos. Thanks for the photos. Here in the Blue Ridge it's pretty magical in the woods right now too.
Re: the pink looking flower you ask for help about. In some Upstate New York wood lots, we sometimes saw what looked to be a pinkish trillium variety that locals called stinking Benjamin.
Beautiful! Thank you.
I love everything about this. I wish I could snap my fingers and be in that creek right now! Or maybe in the morning... Thanks for sharing, and I'm thankful for all the people who worked to preserve this special confluence of regions.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing. My grandparents lived in Waleska and I often wonder what happened to their place. I’ll have to go back to find out. Wish it was preserved like Staraland!
To my eye, the lilac recurved petals say Catesby’s Trillium.
Hey, I'm right over here in Athens, Ga! I'm in love with those Mayapple!!!
I've got LOADS. Just learned that box turtles love the fruit, and transplanted some in a place easier for them to access. Here's hoping they take. They are so dang precious, aren't they?
We have a lot here, too, especially at the State Botanical Gardens. I hadn't heard that about the box turtles! That's really interesting!
Lovely. And that picture of you is very cool. Looks like you dyed your hair blue!
Spring is such a gift from (and to) the Earth.
I can hear it now. When Bill is walking his land, he is thinking of Ellen and decides that nothing would honor her more than preserving the trees, water, and flowers she loved. Their gift made sure all the students and others who value wild places would be forever welcomed there.
And thank you, Janisse, for always sharing words, thoughts, and photos.
Robert Frost wrote, “Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to let you in.”
Beautiful, just beautiful. Having lived my whole life in the western US, your stories and photos of your lands, Janisse, are like being introduced to a foreign (in all the best aspects) land. The land and all she encompasses are so much different than what I am used to. Being able to see them, really see them, from your words and photos is almost as good as being there. Thank you.
Hello Janisse! Wonderful place. I wonder if I can visit there too? It is not far from me. Trilliums are notoriously difficult to identify due to their simple floral parts, yet great speciation. I was able to learn many from Dr. Vic Soucup, who studied them world-wide. We were on a Georgia Botanical Society Pilgrimage just last weekend so these two are fresh with me. The first (whiter one) looks to be Southern Nodding Wakerobin. It is the only nodding trillium where the flower stem is above the leaf attachments. The second has an even more whimsical name, Bashful Wakerobin. I thought it was called that because of the rosy (blushing) petals. Others say the flowers sometimes hide behind leaves or bracts. I think that is true of a lot of the trilliums! Saw more Southern Nodding Wakerobins and Small Jack-in-the-pulpits on a job site this week. Enjoy!
I know it's not an attractive trait, but I'm jealous of you and others spotting Jack-in-the-Pulpits lately!
Oh, the Bashful Wakerobin (AKA Catesby's Trillium) turns out to be not so bashful. I learned from Hal Massie this weekend that it has the longest lasting blooms of any local Trillium species!
beautiful pictures, thank you for sharing!
Looks like Trillium grandiflorum. After it's pollinated the petals turn pink as a signal for the insects that they can move along. Catesby's trillium is a smaller pink trillium you could look up. Sometimes it's hard to know the scale on photos. Thanks for the photos. Here in the Blue Ridge it's pretty magical in the woods right now too.
Lovely. In my corner of the world, the Pacific NW, trillium is born white, then turns pink, then purple as it dies. All one variety, different stages.
Thank you for sharing. It does my heart good to see places like this, as the mining gets bigger and bigger in my small town of WNC!!
Re: the pink looking flower you ask for help about. In some Upstate New York wood lots, we sometimes saw what looked to be a pinkish trillium variety that locals called stinking Benjamin.
Thank you for sharing this. We spent a decade in Statesboro, GA, but certainly were unfamiliar of this special place.