Those heady months of May and June, with intoxicating apple blossoms, then early, mid, and late lilacs, wild grape flowers, peonies, roses, and now … what is that sweetness in the air? … Last week it was basswood trees flowering, and now milkweed blossoms and bedstraw, these last two perhaps the most fragrant of them all, mysteriously perfuming the air currents until their seeds begin to form and they all get down to the business of providing the next generation of plants.| The Montpelier Bridge
White Queen Anne’s lace-type flowered invasives line our roads and walkways in June and have come to look almost normal. But of course they weren’t here 30 or more years ago! And it’s actually several different plants with different names and habits but similar flowers. Best known are biennial wild chervil, succeeded by the slightly shorter flowers of ground-covering bishop’s weed. And there are others, some of them dangerous; for example, poison hemlock, which I have yet to see in th...| The Montpelier Bridge