by admin | May 17, 2017 | Blooming Now
Violets are truly wonders of spring. In BC, there are 20 native species with flowers ranging in colour from white to yellow to lavender to, well, violet. Most flower early in spring and their small stature lends us the phrase “shrinking violet”. Ground...
by admin | May 1, 2017 | Blooming Now
Millions of flowers on the slopes of Gilpin Grasslands.
by admin | Apr 27, 2017 | Blooming Now
The first flower on a camas plant in the Selkirk College propagation beds. It has been a wet cool spring, and camas are just beginning to flower, two weeks later than usual. The plants have been loving the weather, and growing larger leaves and setting many buds. They...
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Blooming Now
Tastes nothing like chocolate! Lomatium macrocarpum is our largest lomatium, with browny purple blooms on large umbels, seen here in flower near South Slocan.
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Blooming Now, Uncategorized
Early spring flowers, such as the glacier lily, are an important nectar source for our native bees, such as bumblebees and mining bees.
