Adding 5 plants to shady gardens provides ‘burst of colour’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1292481/adding-5-plants-to-shady-gardens-provides-burst-of-colour/ #Brunnera #flowers #garden #gardener #gardening #GardeningTips #heuchera #plants #PlantsForShadyGardens #PlantsThatLikeShade #pulmonaria #ShadeLovingPlants

A few days ago, @thematzing and I embarked on a quest set by her Austrian botanist associate: to find wild #Pulmonaria #angustifolia, a rare species once common in #Austria, now nearly vanished.

The tip? A nerdy botany forum where someone mentioned spotting these plants in the middle of nowhere near #Włocławek, #Poland, back in 2015. Armed with this, we trekked out to the GPS coordinates. Hours of searching later, we (well, @thematzing) finally found it — no blooms to guide us, and the leaves blending in perfectly with everything else. A true needle-in-a-haystack adventure.

DNA samples are already on their way back to Vienna. The hunt paid off.

#Pulmonaria or #Lungwort, flowering in the last days of #winter. This plant came originally from my parents’ garden in #Austria more than 25 years ago.
When I was out gardening yesterday, I noticed the first bumblebee. Shows how important early flowering #plants are.
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First lungwort flower! Our allotment is in a frost pocket and even the snowdrops aren't out yet... But this hyper-coloured lad doesn't give a fig for the cold
#bloomscrolling #allotment #lungwort #gardening #pulmonaria #flowers #spring

Happy #BisexualVisibilityDay

#Woodland wonders. Another very conspicuous member of our small wood is the #lungwort, or #pulmonaria. It grows almost everywhere on the #woodland floor here at home, and comes to life again in early spring. It is among the first plants to #flower and a huge attractor for #bumblebees.
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Auch das Lungenkraut blüht schon im #Garten

#Fotografie #Frühling #photography #Natur #nature
#Pulmonaria #spring #garden

The #lungwort in the #wildflower area of the #garden is flowering. Such a happy sight at this time of the year and so important for early #insects.

Harbingers of #spring in my #backyard

My most recent blog post, over on Blipfoto:
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3087858623267733986
#BritishBees #HairyFootedFlowerBee #AnthophoraPlumipes #pulmonaria #nature #wildlife #macro #CanonR5

My most recent blog post, over on Blipfoto:
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3085347062347203456
#BritishBees #HairyFootedFlowerBee #AnthophoraPlumipes #pulmonaria #lungwort #nature #wildlife #macro #CanonR5

This area is now going into its third season. The pulmonaria is a massive favorite of the Anna’s hummingbirds, which I was not expecting. I suppose it is because it blooms so profusely and early in the season, for a good long period.

Glad to see this year progressing well!

My most recent blog post, over on Blipfoto:
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/3083567001013061244
#BritishBees #HairyFootedFlowerBee #AnthophoraPlumipes #pulmonaria #lungwort #nature #wildlife #macro #CanonR5

Pulmonaria, aka lungwort! So named because people thought the spotted leaves looked like diseased lungs, and in the Doctrine of Signatures, a plant part resembled the body part it was believed to treat.

This #pulmonaria doesn't mind the bitterest cold, even with the snow that came this evening.

#floweraday #winterGarden #WinterGardening #lungwort #myGarden #gardening @plants