FERNS UNFURL AS THE MAYAPPLES BECOME GREEN PARASOLS

Garden of the Sanguine Root, Morris Park Road, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Garden of the Sanguine Root, Morris Park Road, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Polystichum acrostichoides

 Mayapple, Garden of the Sanguine Root, Morris Park Road, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Mayapple, Garden of the Sanguine Root, Morris Park Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Christmas fern is unfurling and the Mayapples are becoming the green woodland Parasols that they are.  Our garden specimens of Mayapple are a little behind the development of the naturally occurring wild populations in Morris Park.

Blue cohosh, Garden of the Sanguine Root, Morris Park Road, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Blue cohosh, Garden of the Sanguine Root, Morris Park Road, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Blue Cohosh is really interesting to watch come out of the Earth.

Mayapples growing in the wild, Morris Park, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Mayapples growing in the wild, Morris Park, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

A wild, naturally occurring population of Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum) in Morris Park.

Sedge, Morris Park, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Sedge, Morris Park, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

A native grass in bloom.

The bloom of what we believe to be Carex pennsylvanica, growing in the wild here in Morris Park.