in the secret landscape behind the landscape we look at here.”
— Charles Wright
Weeds without love. Torn and dying flowers. Dead insects and other animals. A tangle of brambles. Galls and burls. Broken trees, struggling trees. So much that’s not perfect is beautiful, magical, and soulful beyond words, beyond a photo, beyond belief. A secret landscape.
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For today, photos of weeds, wayside plants, invasive exotics, plants we want to eradicate, plants we don’t always love.
By colour.
Red/orange:
orange hawkweed, NH garden, June 2016Japanese barberry, NH garden, Oct. 2014Japanese bittersweet, Cape Cod, Oct. 2016knotweed in fall colour, NH trail, Oct. 2015bittersweet vines and milkweed, NH field, Dec. 2015Jewelweed, NH garden, Sept. 2013milkweed and brambles, NH meadow, Nov. 2013Prunus virginiana (choke cherry berries), NH meadow, Aug. 2014coltsfoot, NH rail trail, June 2014Russian thistle on beach, Jekyll Island, GA, Sept. 2014gaillardia (blanket flower) and rudbeckia, Jekyll Island, GA, June 2014
Yellow/gold:
Utricularia cornuta (horned bladderwort), NH bog, Aug. 2014yellow hawkweed, NH garden, Aug 2015purple-headed sneezeweed, NH meadow, Aug. 2016bidens plant, NH lake, Oct. 2016wood nymph on goldenrod, NH meadow, Aug. 2014silverrod (Solidago bicolor), NH garden, Sept. 2014senna flower, Jekyll Island, GA, Sept. 2014Brassica nigra (black mustard), NH rail trail, June 2014Chamaecrista fasciculata (partridge pea), Jekyll Island GA, Sept. 2014
Purple and pink:
dock leaves, persicaria flower, penstemon seedheads, NH garden, Sept. 2015pokeweed, Maine botanical garden, Aug. 2016Chamerion angustifolium (fireweed), NH lake, Aug. 2016red clover, NH garden, Sept. 2015purple loosestrife, NH pond, Aug. 2014
Apios americana (ground nut vine), NH meadow, Aug. 2014beach pea bloom, Maine beach, June 2014thistle, NH bog, Aug. 2014cosmos et al., SC public garden, June 2014Saponaria officinalis (double-flower soapwort), NH lake, Aug. 2016smilax vine, NH rail trail, Sept. 2016railroad vine, Jekyll Island, GA, Sept. 2013
Blue and green:
self-heal, NH garden, June 2016Sideroxlyon tenax (tough buckthorn) berries, Jekyll Island, Sept. 2014duckweed and fall leaves, NH open garden, Oct. 2015blue violet, NH trail, May 2016Virginia creeper, Jekyll Island, GA Sept. 2014borage, NH garden, July 2015
White/cream:
cow parsnip, northern NH field, July 2015Arabis hirsuta (hairy rockcress), NH rail trail, June 2014Polygonum articulatum (coastal jointed knotweed), NH rail trail, Sept. 2016Queen Anne’s lace, NH garden, Aug. 2012Trifolium arvense (rabbit’s foot clover), NH lake, July 2014dandelions and white violets, NH garden, May 2016Mikania Scandens (climbing hempvine), Jekyll Island, GA, Sept. 2014white clover, NH garden, June 2016
