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Kentucky Yellow Lady’s Slippers

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jul 3, 2019 | Orchidaceae Family, Wildflowers

Yellow Lady’s Slippers are one of my favorite spring wildflowers. This year, I had the chance to photograph some wonderful Kentucky Yellow Lady’s Slippers at Mt Cuba Center in Delaware. I thought I’d share a few of my photos of these wonderful flowers with you today

Mt Cuba Center

Kentucky Lady's Slipper - Cypripedium kentuckiense © 2019 Patty Hankins

Wildflowers Along the C&O Canal

by hankinslawrenceimages | May 22, 2019 | Maryland, Wildflowers

I recently spent an afternoon photographing spring wildflowers along the C&O Canal in Montgomery County Maryland. The area I was photographing in is part of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park. It was one of those days where everywhere I looked, I saw more wonderful wildflowers to photograph. I thought I’d share some of my photos from the day with you today.

Virginia Bluebells - Mertensia Virginica © 2019 Patty Hankins

Spring Beauty - Claytonia Virginica © 2019 Patty Hankins

White Trout Lily - Erythronium albidum © 2019 Patty Hankins

Yellow Trout Lily - Erythronium americanum © 2019 Patty Hankins

Dutchman's Breeches - Dicentra Cucullaria © 2019 Patty Hankins

Cutleaf Toothwort - Cardamine concatenata © 2019 Patty Hankins

Wonderful Spring Wildflowers

by hankinslawrenceimages | Apr 26, 2019 | Wildflowers

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending hours photographing flowers in gardens, parks and arboretums. As much as I love seeing the daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinths, and other garden flowers, I’m even happier every year to see all the spring wildflowers. So many of them are so delicate and bloom for only a short time in very specific places, that I always feel like I’ve received a gift from Mother Nature when I see and photograph them.

I thought I’d share some of my favorite spring wildflowers photos from this year with you.

Yellow Trout Lily – Erythronium americanum – photographed at Jenkins Arboretum

Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex – photographed at Jenkins Arboretum

Bloodroot - Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex © 2019 Patty Hankins

Dutchman’s Breeches – Dicentra cucullaria – photographed at Jenkins Arboretum

Virginia Bluebells – Mertensia virginica – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Squirrel Corn – Dicentra canadensis – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Squirrel Corn - Dicentra Canadensis © 2019 Patty Hankins

Spring Beauty – Claytonia virginica – photographed at Chanticleer Gardens

Rue Anemone – Thalictrum thalictroides – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Rue Anemone - Thalictrum thalictroides © 2019 Patty Hankins

Perfoliate Bellwort – Uvularia perfoliata – photographed at Chanticleer Gardens

Grandiflorum Trillium – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Trillium Grandiflorum © 2019 Patty Hankins

Celadine Poppies – Stylophorum diphyllum – photographed at Bartram’s Gardens

White Trout Lily – Erythonium albidum – photographed along the C&O Canal

I’m hoping to find more wonderful spring wildflowers to photograph this year. If you’d like to see what I’m finding, be sure to follow me on Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattyhankins/. Lately I’ve been posting photographs there as soon as I edit them.

Mt. Cuba Center

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 22, 2019 | Wildflowers

I’ve had a few questions about some of the gardens we’ll be visiting during my Photographing the Gardens of Philadelphia workshop in May.

Mt. Cuba Center is a native-plant garden located in Hockessin, Delaware. The center is located on the former estate of Lammont Dupont Copeland and his wife Pamela Cunningham Copeland. The Copelands moved to the area in the 1930s and over the next few decades developed formal gardens on their estate. In the 1960’s, they became interested in ecology and conservation of native plants. Landscape architect Seth Kelsey was hired to add woodland wildflower gardens and other native plant environments. Starting in the 1980’s, the Copelands expanded the scope of the native-plant studies on the estate and began to offer tours of their collection. After the Copelands died, their estate became a public garden. In 2013, the gardens opened to the public for general admission.

Currently, Mt. Cuba Center encompasses over 500 acres of natural lands dedicated to native plants. There are formal gardens, hills, streams, valleys and forests brimming with wildflowers.

These are a few of the spring-time photos I’ve taken at Mt. Cuba Center to give you an idea of what we might see in May.

May Apples

Yellow Trillium

Blue Flag Irises

Yellow Lady’s Slipper

Trillium Discolor

A Peaceful Moment at the Pond

Twisted Trillium

Irises at the Pond

Mt. Cuba Center is just one of the gardens we’ll visit during my Photographing the Gardens of Philadelphia Workshop in May. For more information about the workshop, visit https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/photographing-the-gardens-of-philadelphia-may-2019/

I’d love to have you join me for a week of photographing some of the beautiful gardens in the Philadelphia area.

If you missed the first two articles about the gardens we’ll be visiting, you can read about Chanticleer Garden at https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/chanticleer-garden/ and Shofuso Japanese House and Gardens at https://www.beautifulflowerpictures.com/blog/shofuso-japanese-house-and-gardens/

A Few Spring Wildflowers

by hankinslawrenceimages | Jan 30, 2019 | Wildflowers

I’m back to working my way through the folders of unweeded and unedited photos sitting on my hard drive. Today I’m sharing a few photographs of spring wildflowers taken in early May in Delaware and Pennsylvania,.

Taken at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in New Hope, Pennyslvania

Taken at Mt. Cuba Center in Hockessin, Delaware

Yellow Lady's Slippers © 2019 Patty Hankins

And finally some wildflowers in the Woods at Chanticleer Gardens

Wildflowers in the Woods © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’ll be sharing more photos from the gardens in the greater Philadlephia area as I get ready for my May 2019 Gardens of Philadelphia workshop.

A Few Trilliums

by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 12, 2018 | Liliaceae Family, Wildflowers

Trilliums are some of my favorite wildflowers which also means I tend to take lots (and lots) of photos of trillium when I see it growing in the woods. I thought I’d share a few of the trillium photos that have piling up on my hard drive with you today 🙂

Trillium Grandiflorum 2018 Patty Hankins

Painted Trillium - trillium undulatum © 2018 Patty Hankins

Pale Yellow Trillium - trillium discolor © 2018 Patty Hankins

Pale Yellow Trillium - trillium discolor © 2018 Patty HankinsPale Yellow Trillium - trillium discolor © 2018 Patty Hankins

Bloody Butcher Trillium - trillium recurvatum ©2018 Patty Hankins

I’m not sure where these last three trilliums originated. I’ve never seen double trilliums in the wild. These were photographed at “wildflower gardens.” I chatted with the staff at one – who said that their best guess is these are hybrids someone developed and then planted in their gardens.

Smith's Double Trillium ©2018 Patty Hankins

Double Loop Trillium © 2018 Patty Hankins

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