3/09/2011

Ruskin Wildflowers in March


Beautiful Pink Azaleas among the Pines


Perfectly manicured mounds
 of wildflowers among the old oaks
This is a Lady Lupine

White Wild Indigo shrubby plants can be found
among the old pines and along the roadsides


Ah, ha, I found Yellow Spatterdock blooming
in some brackish water along the Manatee.
Nuphar lutea subsp.

The Yellow Coreopsis, our State Wildflower
is starting to bloom.

These are 10 feet tall bushes that are
 loaded with dainty white blooms.
Similar to a Lantana blossom.

One show stopping Purple Wisteria


A Yellow Tabulea in full bloom.  I found this one
 a few miles from Ruskin,
but this shows you what the smaller ones in town will look like
 in a few years.


The air is filled with the heavenly scent
of rows and rows of Orange Blossom's.

A delightful find when wandering thru old sandy Pinelands

And the month has just started.

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