Our premature spring in Northern Virginia showed off its harbingers almost side by side:
The tiny promise of warmer days, Crocus Chryanthus.
And summer’s threat of weeds unending, Cardamine hirsuta, the hairy bittercress.
And so we take the bitter with the sweet.
Torch ginger (Etlingera elatior)
Calla Lily aka Arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica)
Laelia anceps
Showy Spider Flower (Cleome speciosa)
Bougainvillea or Paper Flower. (Bougainvillea glabra)
Stapelia grandiflora, aka starfish flower, starfish cactus or carrion plant.
