Showing posts with label hazelnut flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hazelnut flowers. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2012

First Flowers of Spring!

Wow!  Close to 70 degrees today!  No doubt about it, spring is here!  And here are the first flowers to prove it.


 The  red-mottled spathes of Skunk Cabbage have been up for some time, but today I found a spathe that had opened and the spadix inside was shedding pollen.  Little flies were flying in and out.




I searched among hundreds of catkin-draped American Hazelnut branches and finally found one twig that was tufted with the tiny red female flowers.