So, with duck season over and turkey season creeping its way to me, I needed to get out for an adventure. I was reminded that the Dimpled Trout Lilies should be blooming at the beginning of February and so I started stalking the Wolf Creek Trout Lily Preserve website and Facebook page to get updates on when the best time to go was.
Wolf Creek was a Preserve that I’d been trying to get to for the last four years since I heard about the place. It has the highest concentration of dimpled trout lilies known to be anywhere. They are considered to be endangered in FL and before the discovery of this mass of plants in the 90’s, they were considered extremely rare in GA.
Anyway, I had wanted to get to the park and the timing had just been wrong for me every year. This year however, I am now living about an hour away from the park and so I went up there one day after work on an absolutely gorgeous, clear, windy and cold day. What I saw when I got into the woods was amazing.
A blanket of trout lilies just covering the forest floor
There were many opportunities to get up close and personal with the lovely flowers.
And there were many bees going about pollinating
But since spring was making it’s way into the south, the trout lilies were not the only plants that were in bloom
There were violets
There were a handful of southern twayblade orchids, if you looked hard enough
There were spotted trilliums that were just coming up
And they are such a neat flower
And there were blueberries scattered throughout the woods as well
But those trout lilies covering the forest floor were just amazing.
Spring is well and truly here……..
Danibeth
Wolf Creek was a Preserve that I’d been trying to get to for the last four years since I heard about the place. It has the highest concentration of dimpled trout lilies known to be anywhere. They are considered to be endangered in FL and before the discovery of this mass of plants in the 90’s, they were considered extremely rare in GA.
Anyway, I had wanted to get to the park and the timing had just been wrong for me every year. This year however, I am now living about an hour away from the park and so I went up there one day after work on an absolutely gorgeous, clear, windy and cold day. What I saw when I got into the woods was amazing.
A blanket of trout lilies just covering the forest floor
There were many opportunities to get up close and personal with the lovely flowers.
And there were many bees going about pollinating
But since spring was making it’s way into the south, the trout lilies were not the only plants that were in bloom
There were violets
There were a handful of southern twayblade orchids, if you looked hard enough
There were spotted trilliums that were just coming up
And they are such a neat flower
And there were blueberries scattered throughout the woods as well
But those trout lilies covering the forest floor were just amazing.
Spring is well and truly here……..
Danibeth