Virginia Bluebells

Virginia Bluebells, May 18, 2005
Now that I'm living in Virginia, it seems appropriate to include this flower. I have seen it in many places, of course, incuding New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Iowa. It is often grown as a cultivated flower in shaded gardens. It forms nice thick clumps. I have seen it in nature, in a restored forest at Bowmans Wildflower Center, north of Philadelphia. I like the way the flowers start of with a pinkish shade of purple that becomes more and more blue as the flowers develop. You can see the beginning of the color change here, in these rather young blossoms.