{"id":1001,"date":"2012-05-04T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:41:33","slug":"this-week-in-our-garden-may-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/this-week-in-our-garden-may-4\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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red admiral butterfly on golden currant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
[PHOTOS: CWF]<\/div>\n
I’ve been seeing red admiral butterflies these past few weeks but today managed to get a few shots of one on our golden current (Ribes aureum). This photo shows it having a drink with its proboscis. There were other butterflies about, on this shrub as well as the neighbouring serviceberries…and the odd dandelion! While our little yellow friends have been flowering for a couple of weeks now, it seems they are at their peak right now. Many natives in our garden are still in bloom this week, such as hepaticas, pasque flower\/prairie crocus, bellwort, prairie smoke, Virginia bluebells, bearberry honeysuckle and western bleeding heart.<\/div>\n
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The serviceberries are in full bloom, but the petals are starting to drop in the wind. It’s quite fun having a springy shower of petals gently blow around me on my walkabout!<\/p>\n

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Red trilliums are blooming in our woodland area, just off the path from the parking lot.<\/p>\n

\"white<\/div>\n

So are our white trilliums.<\/p>\n

\"sensitive<\/div>\n

Sensitive ferns are now opening up. They are tiny and delicate at the moment, with a reddy-brown tinge to them. Only 3 or 4 stems seem to come up per clump.<\/p>\n

\"willow\"<\/div>\n

With our fluffy pussy willows finished the other week, another sort of willow begins to flower this week.<\/p>\n

\"golden<\/div>\n

Here’s another shot of the golden flowering current. This is an all-round winner of a bush, with attractive fruit that birds just love and then brilliant fall foliage in the autumn weeks.<\/p>\n

\"barren<\/div>\n

Barren ground strawberry is now flowering. It is a pretty clumping plant that can make an attractive ground cover.<\/p>\n

\"green<\/div>\n

Melissa, our gardener extraordinaire, noticed a green frog lazing about the pond this week.<\/p>\n

\"red<\/div>\n

And we found another red berried elder in the woods, a litte one that is blooming before the more established bush from across the path.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more visitors, blooms and other happenings at our wildlife-friendly demonstration gardens!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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