Fintry Park Trail


Places of Interest, Plant Material, Wild Flowers / Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

Lupins edging the trail-5803 View of barns 2-5825

On my early morning walk on the upper trail in Fintry Provincial Park, the scene mid May is very different from earlier in the season.  Masses of lupines line the pathway and straight away I smelt the wild roses –  an array of both pale and deep pink blooms.  

.Wild lupins good-5756  Wild pale pink roses-5771 Deep pink wild rose-5834Wild pale pink rose good-5772

As I walked further on though I discovered a variety of wild flowers that I am not totally familiar with but it made me do some research and hopefully I have identified them correctly.  

Red tubular flowers-5788

Scarlet Gilia (gilia aggregata).

Wild sunflower-5797Brown eyed susan’s in the Gaillardia family (blanket flower)  Wild sunflower2-5801

Yellow snapdragon wildflower-5763

 

These flowers always remind me of snapdragons – they are called linaria genistifolia.

 

 

Yellow flower like coreopsis-5779Slender hawsbeard (crepis atrabarba)

Wild yarrow-5768

Plenty of Yarrow (achillea millefolium)

 

 

As I neared the waterfall I discovered a patch of iris left over from the time that there was a garden surrounding a home long since gone.  

Beautiful pale blue bearded iris.

Pale blue bearded iris 2-5805 Pale blue bearded iris-5742

I also came upon a tree with masses of pea-like white blooms which I have since discovered is called a Black Locust (robinia pseudocacia).   The flowers are very showy and fragrant.  

White sweet pea like flowers-5808 White sweet pea like flowers good-5814 White pea like flowers, bush-5806

On the many walks that I do through Fintry Provincial Park I never fail to find something of interest.

Old outbuilding-5826Barns-5754

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