Today I took a spring wildflower walkabout. Mostly, I wanted to see if the Showy Orchid was up yet. I thought maybe there’d be at least some leaves. There was nothing. I’d have to check daily to catch them at that stage because last year I tried weekly and it went from nothing to full blooms before I saw it. I want to get photos of the bud stem, and that’s proving to be tricky.
Before I went to check on the orchid, I checked on the ginseng nursery to see how many seedlings are poking up to see the light. I counted 5, and hope they stay under for a little longer. We’ve gotten a late hailstorm in April in years past, and it broke them all that year. They’re up earlier this year than usual. None of the older plants are up yet, at least.
In the meantime, here’s some photos of the flowers I saw:
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email: madison@wildozark.com
phone: (479) 409-3429
I’m a nature-lover, real estate agent & artist. Sometimes, I also write things. I began using local pigments to paint scenes from nature in the Ozarks in 2018.
All of my artwork is available in prints, and where originals are available, they are for sale. You can find all of that over at shop.WildOzark.com. I have a separate website for my real estate blogging and information at WildOzarkLand.com.
Don’t be confused by my various monikers. For pretty much everything online, I go by Madison Woods, a pen name I adopted when I first began writing and then later with my art. For real estate, I use my real name, Roxann Riedel. And for my fiction, there’s yet another pen name: Ima Erthwitch.
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