There are SO many native plants growing here and there where they choose. I don't demand that plants grow where I plant them!. I'm just happy when they DO! I've learned over the past 30+ years of gardening here that the plants are in control, not me. It's tough for some gardeners to relinquish control but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let nature do what it does best... and has done best for the past several thousand years.

Sadly a rabbit ate the almost open blossoms on my emerging single and double bloodroot this a.m. before I could shoo it away. Didn't think I had to protect them as other years had good undamaged foliage and blooms. I put chicken wire cages around them and hopefully there are more stems to push through.

In this area there is little wild area, mostly manicured lawns, so we don't see wildflowers if we don't include them in our gardens.

One of my favorite blooms in the spring. But in our case, we dont see flowers till well into May...not enough sun I think.

My double bloodroot has a few shoots showing white but not opened up, and a bunch of others still furled inside their leaves completely. Hopefully a great show in the near future.

Please post a picture when it opens - such a beautiful plant!

That is funny, Rouge. My regular ones opened on Sunday, my double has fat buds, next sunny day, I think. Probably not tomorrow ;-).

Pictures pictures everyone!

(My two plants are in a location which is too shady and that is why neither flowers till well into May. Heck I see no sign of either but that was true last year also.)

My bloodroot is in the shadiest part of my shade garden and they are getting ready to do their thing...

Then all I can hope LaLennoxa and gdinieontario is that being in Hamilton gives you a head start on me...that's my story and I am sticking to it!

Wow, what a clump! Here are my four heads.

Such a great display, gdinie! Yeah I think I counted almost 30 in this clump. I meant to spread them a bit last year but time got away. I'll have to remember this fall.

Oh, they are so beautiful! Thank you for posting!

Those doubles are gorgeous!

I was pleasantly surprised to see many seedlings surrounding my bloodroots this year. I've had them for about five years and this is the first year I've gotten seedlings.

That's pretty sweet, Carol. Are they singles? I'm going from memory but I think the doubles are sterile.

A crazy amount of rain today annihilated my bloodroot flowers.

Til next year!

Update:

Our plants arise quite late in the spring (and so bloom lots later what I saw for guys and gals). And so correspondingly I would imagine ours go dormant lots later than the ones posted above?

And for this particular one, it has huge leaves....here is a picture I tool just yesterday:

Do you similarly for yours before it goes dormant?

Those leaves are fantastic, Rouge! I love the foliage of bloodroot, I wish it didn't go dormant so early. I've found if they're in shadier conditions and the weather doesn't get too hot, they hang on longer.

Mine are in fairly deep shade, and the leaves stay pretty long, till early autumn, I think.

This year rabbits ate most of the leaves on mine. It is also in shade and had big leaves last year. Seems that it dries up during June.