Arguably, this is one of my favorite botanical finds in the late spring and early summer. Usually, in my experience anyway, spiderwort is pretty scarce, popping up somewhat selectively and sparsely, but this spring it is abundant! I can’t believe how many beautiful colors I have found. The varieties we have here in the Hills hybridize easily, and the color variety is astounding.

I love watching the change in the wildflowers over the course of the spring, summer, and fall. They mark the time, and brighten the landscape, and suddenly each jaunt down the road or up into the timber turns into a treasure hunt of sorts. Cultivating an understanding and knowledge of them makes friends of the flowers. And what pleasant little friends they are.