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Mayflowers - Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens)

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By Elke


Mayflowers  - Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens) (Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens))

Nova Scotia's provincial flower. They have a very fresh sweet scent that travels for quite a distance. They are very short plants, and grow mostly in ditches and at the bottom of hedges.



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Its very pretty Elke unusual plant

14 May, 2009

 

Very nice Elke but why does a nice looking plant like that want to hide at the bottom of a ditch?

14 May, 2009

 

I know, Toto - it does seem a shame. They are quite difficult to find too, as they stand about 4 inches or 10 cm at most off the ground, and the flowers hide under the leaves. But what a treat when you do!

14 May, 2009

 

Perhaps you will just have to learn to smell them out.

14 May, 2009

 

Perhaps I'll put my sqizzle friend onto it. He's been digging around in the basil seedlings, probably thinks he buried something in there before winter. So perhaps this will distract him for a while.

14 May, 2009

 

Ah! a tracker squizzle. Sounds just the job.

14 May, 2009

 

Pretty little flowers :o)

16 May, 2009



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