Tag Archive for: Dicentra

Finally some warm weather (then cold again…warm). However, spring is here and in the past couple of weeks Corydalis and Dicentra cucullaria, some of the first here, have not only flowered but started to set seeds! Watching the Corydalis solida and Dicentra cucullaria flowering and the bumblebee hungrily foraging them, I realized that I was awaiting its apparition as much as that of the first spring flowers.

I won’t get into details on the bumblebees since I am sure they are well known; this is for sure the mother queen which is busy building the future colony. Of course, Corydalis grown from seeds will always come in various colours :)

Corydalis solida and bumble bee1

Dicentra cucullaria and bumble bee

Note: The wiki stub on Bumblebees is excellent if someone needs an extra read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee.

And a few more images, since last month I had a very short post on Robbie, which seems to get into a territorial dispute with the cardinals lately.

Cardinal and robin

A lady bug sleeping(?) on Narcissus flower
Narcissus

Few other images taken in the wild recently: a solitary bee on Cardamine, woodland hawks (maybe Cooper’s  Hawks)  and an unknown insect (for now) on the spring beauty flower (Claytonia caroliniana).

Yes, spring beauties are all around!

I hope everyone enjoys them, their garden and the outdoors, and will join in the wildlife celebrations hosted by Tina at My gardener says.