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... Spring Flora.
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The 'arms' of a box elder seem to embrace the Three Creeks Trail.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
18 June 2023.
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▶ "Acer negundo —the box elder, boxelder maple, or ash-leaved maple— is a species of maple tree native to North America. It is a fast-growing but short-lived tree of 60 to 75 years.
Acer negundo grows up to 35–80 feet tall (10–25 m) with a trunk diameter of 1 to 3 feet (30 cm to 1 m). It often has several trunks and can form impenetrable thickets. Its branches are smooth, somewhat brittle, and tend to retain a fresh green color rather than forming a bark of dead, protective tissue. The bark on its trunks is pale gray or light brown, deeply cleft into broad ridges, and scaly. Unlike most other maples, Acer negundo has pinnately compound leaves [multi-divided, feather-like leaves growing on both sides of a common axis], that usually have three to seven leaflets."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ At 8 feet 4 inches in circumference and 71 feet tall, with a crown 63 feet wide (2022 measurement), this is the City Champion Box Elder: i.e., the tallest box elder tree in the Atlanta, Georgia-metropolitan area.
▶ The three creeks of the trail's name are Glenn Creek, Burnt Fork Creek, and South Fork Peachtree Creek; the first two are tributaries of the third.
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Early-spring pendants.
Atlanta (Emory University), Georgia, USA.
22 March 2023.
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▶ "Halesia carolina —commonly called Carolina silverbell or little silverbell— is a species of flowering plant in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States. It is a small tree bearing masses of pendent, bell-shaped white flowers which appear in spring before the leaves. The flowers are followed by green, four-winged fruit. The leaves turn yellow in autumn."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's note:
The administrator of a Flickr group called "Georgia in Spring" rejected this image (although it follows their rules: an image of a spring blossom taken in the state of Georgia). When I asked why, they summarily removed me from the group.
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A poppy and its pod.
Trailhead Community Park of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
11 May 2023.
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▶ "Stylophorum diphyllum —commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy— is an herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario. Its typical natural habitat is moist forests.
In spring, the deep yellow flowers of the celandine poppy appear as a brilliant display on the forest floor. The flowers have 4 yellow petals, two soon-falling sepals, many yellow-orange stamens, and a single knobby stigma. They appear singly or in umbels of two to four flowers from early spring to early summer. After fertilization, a bristly blue-green pod hangs below the leaves [as seen above]."
— Wikipedia.
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Camellia x williamsii E.G.Waterhouse
For Looking Close... on Friday!'s #spring flora theme
[This image was created from a series of eight slightly rotated shots of a single bloom (a potted camellia, so i could rotate it easily), with each layer blended using different modes and opacities. It was inspired by an image of a tree the lovely Peter Whitfield posted some time ago, using a technique named for the artist, Pep Ventosa, who first used it. For Peter's shot, he circled his subject through 360 degrees. For mine, I limited myself to rotating through 180 degrees from left to right (mainly because parts of the garden wouldn't look great as background). When I saw Peter's shot, I started thinking about whether it would translate to a smaller subject. As Peter said in his original posting, the technique itself is relatively easy to understand but what i'd been finding daunting was the prospect of deciding on the blend modes and opacities for each layer when the possibilities are endless... ]
My first Camellia Japonica of the year has opened to bring a splash of colour into our dull, long days of isolation! The recent dry and sunny weather is beginning to generate new growth in our garden and a few flowers are beginning to appear, a foretaste of what the summer might bring?
Must get out next week and do some gardening!
Up, they jumped,
Winter sprites,
Vernal rising.
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
7 March 2023.
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▶ This is a closeup. The blossoms appear larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
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It may have been 0 °C, but the native plant restoration was blossoming!
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
19 March 2023.
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▶ "Podophyllum peltatum is an herbaceous woodland plant in the family Berberidaceae —with common names of mayapple, American mandrake, wild mandrake, and ground lemon— widespread across most of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada. Mayapple is unique in that It has only 2 leaves and 1 flower, which grows in the axil of the leaves [where the leaf joins the stem].
The stems grow to 30–40 cm (12 in to 16 in) tall, with leaves up to 8 inches in diameter (20–40 cm) with 3–9 deeply cut lobes. The flowers are white, yellow or red, 1-2 inches in diameter (2–6 cm) with 6–9 petals, and mature into a large, fleshy, lemon-shaped berry, 1 -2 inches long (2–5 cm). All the parts of the plant are poisonous, including the green fruit, but once the fruit has ripened and turned yellow, it can be safely eaten, as the ripe fruit does not produce toxicity."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ "Last year [2022]. we introduced Mayapple to one of the areas [in Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve] we have been restoring with sheep. Exciting to see it popping up. When we started, this area was wildly overgrown with English ivy. Now, it is supporting native plants.
— ACEcology (Instagram)
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▶ Photographer's note:
The administrator of a Flickr group called "Georgia in Spring" rejected this image (although it follows his rules: spring nature in the state of Georgia). When I asked why, he summarily removed me from the group.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15, Nik Collection.
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Stalks of wood sage, blooming in late spring. Splendid!
Three Creeks Trail
DeKalb County (Mason Mill Park), Georgia, USA.
18 June 2023.
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▶ "Teucrium canadense —commonly known as Canada germander, American germander, or wood sage— is a perennial herb in the sage family, Lamiaceae. It is native to North America where it is found across the contiguous states of the United States and in much of Canada, growing at the edges of forests, thickets, moist grasslands, marshes, riverbanks, and on wasteland.
The plant grows in clumps up to 3 feet tall (90 cm). The terminal inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on branched stem] is a raceme [short floral stalk] up to 8 inches long (20 cm) containing numerous whitish or pale-lilac lipped flowers with large shelf-like lower lips. The plant is in bloom from about mid-June for about a month, blooming from the bottom of the raceme upward."
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▶ The Three Creeks Trail is one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre urban Piedmont forest located in three Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan-area DeKalb County parks: Mason Mill Park, Medlock Park, and Ira B. Melton Park.
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El tema de esta semana (7 de Abril) es "Color Rosa".
The theme for this week (on April 7) is "Pink Colour".
A trumpet creeper, growing wild on a chain-link fence.
Atlanta (Kirkwood), Georgia, USA.
31 May 2023.
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▶ "Campsis radicans —the trumpet vine or trumpet creeper— is a species of flowering plant in the family Bignoniaceae, inhabiting woodlands and riverbanks, native to eastern North America. Growing to 35 feet (10.6 m), it is a vigorous, deciduous woody vine, notable for its showy trumpet-shaped flowers. Each flower is up to 5.5 inches long (9 cm): trumpet shaped, orange to reddish orange in color, with a yellowish throat. After flowering, a seed capsule appears, about 6 inches long (15 cm), eventually splitting in two to disperse its seeds."
— Wikipedia.
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Hosta blooming purple and white in a spring garden alongside the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
14 June 2021.
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▶ "Hosta —also known as plantain lilies and gibōshi— is a genus of plants in the family Asparagaceae, native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East). Hostas are widely cultivated, being particularly useful in the garden as shade-tolerant plants whose striking foliage provides a focal point. Hybridization within and among species and cultivars has produced numerous cultivars, with over 6,100 registered and named varieties."
— Wikipedia.
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Calendrically winter; botanically spring! Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens), blooming alongside the...
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
11 March 2023.
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A dense thicket of wild sawtooth blackberry brambles (Rubus argutus), in bloom, on the banks of Postal Pond, in...
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
29 April 2022.
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— Polarizing filter
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