A peony bud. |
Close-up of the peony. |
An iris I discovered. |
A little white flower of an inedible berry, the Bunchberry. |
I found these little yellow flowers that might be the Prairie Ragwort. |
If it's not that, please, someone correct me. |
This iris came up last year, but not this spring. |
 This is a Tansy. I'm told it keeps mosquitoes away. Yah, sure! |
 My Favorite flower. The simple daisy. |
 The Yellow Cone Flower. We had to show you how tall it grows. Sue is about 5' 5". |
 The Obedience Plant (False Dragonhead). A member of the mint family (See below. |
 Vervain; a sleep aid. |
 This is the final fruit of the Jack in the Pulpit. |
w You can move the individual flowers, and they'll stay where you've moved them. |
 A wild sunflower I found down by the lake called: Nodding Beggar's-ticks. See Below. |
 I love the wild mushrooms (toad stools) that grow around here. |
 Heal-all. |
 We'd never seen this particular sunflower previously. |
 Fireweed. |
 Turk's Cap Lilly. |
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 One Fireweed plant. |
 Horsetail; is used for bladder and kidney problems. |
 The great burdock; it's root has anti-tumor properties. |
| Welcome to | Fall | in Minnesota |
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 Most of these shots are of fruit trees I've planted for the birds. |
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 Well, I had to experiment with this. |
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 Grows along the side of the road in fall. |
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 An amazing sunflower that only appears in the fall. |
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 I never noticed this, but we have a tree that thinks it's an evergreen. |
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 It's called a Tamarack, and it's needles turn golden, fall off, and re-grow in the spring. |
