Fairy flowers

12 Responses to “Fairy flowers”

1. Emily
   April 19th, 2010 @ 8:00 am

   Those are gorgeous flowers, Shreve! And your photography skills make them look even better.

2. Scargosun
   April 19th, 2010 @ 8:08 am

   I would cut my grass less if I had these. :)

3. Charley
   April 19th, 2010 @ 9:41 am

   Shreve,
   In my past when I was a botanist, we called these tiny spring wild flowers, Belly Plants. The reason, as shown in your excellent photo, is obvious.

4. Lynda J
   April 19th, 2010 @ 9:59 am

   Fluttering about… “garden” fairys.
   Magically wandering
   and watching us wherever they grow…

5. catherine
   April 19th, 2010 @ 10:41 am

   The de Anza desert here has been flowering for a month now.
   Ocotillo in bloom, butter cups….What a change in our lives, we see green everywhere….And then suddenly, it all goes away for the long summer and complete silence.

6. Karen
   April 19th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

   This photo IS full of magic. It brought to mind these words…

   “There we’ve hid our faery vats,
   Full of berrys
   And of reddest stolen cherries.”
   YB Yeats
   The Stolen Child

7. Maggie Y.
   April 19th, 2010 @ 12:15 pm

   <3
   http://www.worldoffroud.com/www/faeries/faeries/faery4.cfm

8. Claudia
   April 19th, 2010 @ 12:52 pm

   Wow, such beautiful and simple flowers. :)

9. daria
   April 20th, 2010 @ 12:45 am

   Perfect. Beautiful.

10. Kathy Sue
    April 20th, 2010 @ 9:01 am

    I love the name, even if it is the invention of someone with an inventive imagination. They are beautiful!

11. harmanica
    April 21st, 2010 @ 7:07 pm

    Blossoming trees and daffodils we have, but best do I love the flowers of my neighbor’s pasture, and the tiny, fragrant Mayflowers hidden in last year’s leaves near the swamp. Hidden treasures!

12. MaryK
    April 25th, 2010 @ 10:12 am

    I think this flower belongs to the group known as Rock Cresses. For sure it is in the mustard family whose latin name is Cruciferae- same as all the cruciferous vegetables like radishes and broccoli and so named because of the 4 petals arranged like a cross.
    I once took a class in plant taxonomy and the most astonishing thing about that was realizing that when you look out over a field of wildflowers, all of them have been named and studied by someone!
    The more you know, the richer you get and it doesn’t have anything to do with money.

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