A walk in the woods...on a wet spring morning...

Ooooohhh.., I just love these ! Ordered a few of them from a mail order nursery a few years ago and they are doing great.

Lovely flower Lori.

These like the white trillium take seven years from seed to blossom...the white trillium is Ontario's provincial flower and they are protected. these grow in a piece of bush behind our street...

Great color!

I just love that it is wild! Its really a lovely thing.

You wouldn't think that such pretty flower like this could have an unpleasant smell - a bit like those garlicy whitebells that multiply like mad

Thanks Tg and Gt ...lol! T60: they smell a little like skunk, but only if you stick your nose right in the blossom and take a huge wiff... lol.. otherwise even in large concentrations it just adds to the natural ambience! I have another shot of the forest floor...green and white...with new ferns sprouting...wild ginger...both types of trilliums, erythronium..claytonia...all there creating a lovely understory... but the leaves are emerging and the wild flower's time is coming to an end for this season. it really is a very short period.

Lori:

This plant has beautiful leaves and flowers. Is it a native?

http://www.ont-woodlot-assoc.org/sw_woodlandplants.html This page will give you an idea of how prevalent these wonderful wild flowers are... The wakerobin is a terrific maroon red..but they grow dispersed among the more showy white trillium and at best seem like a punctuation mark... when you can find a clump they seem to light up their little corner... great plant. growing totally wild as they have for centuries.

I'm jealous, have never been able to grow them. I live in Spain now, what chance do I have - oh well I guess I can grow just as dramatic plants as that beauty??

No need to be jealous, Echeveria, neither have I !! ... these lovely plants are protected wildflowers... and since their life cycle from seed to blossom is seven years..and they prefer the humusy soil of the forest...it's a bit of a trial to replicate in a suburban garden! I've posted this picture because my garden is taking a while to get on it's feet this spring...and I wandered into the woods to look at nature's display... I'm sure the wild flowers of Espania will be a wonderful new subject for you to study and incorporate into your garden! Lucky you!