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Updates about what is Blooming and Seasonal Color
on Lookout Mountain; Home of the Wildflower Cafe & Country Store!
This page will be updated periodically through the month as more plants bloom.
More may blooms coming soon
April 29
Rhododendron
Lyre Leaved Sage
Blackberry
Fire Pink
Cross Vine
Locust Tree
April 22
Princess Paulownia
Blue Star
Stone Root
Ragwort
Blueberry
Dewberry
April 21
Sweet Shrub
April 21st blooms submitted by Ginger Kogelschatz
Field madder
Common Speedwell
Corn salad (yum!)
Golden seal
Catesby trillium (rose trillium)
Cutleaf geranium
Paw Paw
Boxelder
White clover
Crimson clover
Spring vetch
Indian strawberry
Dwarf cinquefoil
Black cherry
Hawthorn
Little brown jug
Wild ginger
Spring forget me not
Pinxterbloom azalea
Carolina silverbell
And so many more I can’t recall….
April 20
Lady Banks Rose (In front of the Wildflower)
Ox Eye Daisy
Apple Trees
In Bud with a little pink showing is a Rhododendron!
April 16
Wisteria
Azaela (Pink)
Black Cohosh
Princess Paulownia
Jack in the Pupit
Dwarf Crested Iris
Yellow Star Grass
Alliums
Sweet Cicely
Wild Hyacinth
Golden Alexander
Wood Betony (Louse Wort)
April 7
It has been snowing on the mountain today! Since I have last written I have seen the new blooms of:
Wild Azalea (Purple)
Lilacs
Sorrel
Wild Mustard
Oak
Ash
Sassafras
Pear Trees
Trailing Arbutus
I have been unable to get out and walk as much as I normally would due to the weather and schedule constraints. I am sure I am leaving out several spring blooms. Please fell free to email any blooms you have seen! Most of the blooms I list are wild or natives though they do not have to be.
March 23rd
On March 23rd I took a hike at the base of pigeon mountain. Lookout Mountain is usually just a few days to a week behind the valley at the pocket where I went hiking. I saw 36 blooms while I was there. Some of them have already been listed at an earlier date so keep scrolling down to see all the blooms of this season.
Phlox
Duchman's Breeches
Blue Cohosh
Celandine Poppy
Redbud
Dogwood
Service Berry
Blue Bells
Yellow Buckeye
Harbinger of Spring
White Hepatica and Blue Hepatica
Toothwort
Mitrewort
Columbine
Jack in the Pulpit (Just about to Bloom)
Large White Flowered Trillium
Trailing Trilium
Sessile Trillium
Star Chickweed
Trout Lily
Violets of all sorts including the spurred violet
Rue Anemone
Yellow Mandarin
White Baneberry
Stone Crop
Wild Geranium
Solomon's Seal
False Solomon's Seal
Bellwort
Foam Flower
Phacelia
Wild Hyacinth (In bud just about to bloom!)
Bladdernut Tree (In bud about to bloom)
On March 18th I took a walk with a dear friend in her woods at the base of Lookout Mountain. We found many plants and trees blooming. Though we also found several plants beginning to pop out there green leaves from just under the ground: Mayapple, Wild Comfrey, Black Cohosh, Dwarf Larkspur, Columbine, several of the Bedstraws, Plantain, Lousewort... I am sure I am leaving something out. It is all coming out so fast! It is a miracle that each year the botanicals pull themeslves in and then create new leaves, blooms, pollen and life giving properties each year! Thank You God we are truly blessed!
March 18th
Peach Trees
Red Bud Trees
Maple Trees
Spring Beauty
Penny Wort
Purple Violets
Bird's Foot Violets
Sessile Trillium
Cranesbill Geranium
Rue Anemone
Henbit
Ground Ivy
Grape Hyacinth
Yellow Jessamine (also known as Jasmine)
Bluebells (budding and about o burst into bloom)
March 15th
On the mountain today I found blooming
Bloodroot
Toothwort
Yellow Violets
Bluets
Crab Apples
Pear Trees
Yellow Root in Bud
As of March 5, 2009
Spirea
Periwinkle was blooming today just outside the Wildflower. Many of the buds are swelling on the trees. Leaves are bursting out of the ground. The weather has been delightful and the water falls are full of our clean mountain water.
As of Feb 28, 2009
Chickweed
Crocus
Daffodil
Dandelion
Forsythia
Hyacinth
Purple Dead Nettle
