Wildflowers

The Carter family sung a lovely country song "Wildwood Flower." It's about a girl who was seduced and abandoned.

When I was young and lived in Sackville, N.B., there were wild lupins near our cottage so we took some of them back home and planted them next to the quarry near our house.  They improved its appearance a lot!  Some were red, some blue, some white, and they naturally crossbred into combinations like pink and purple.  Some fine arts students at the local university would come over and paint the scene.

I used to play Edward MacDowell's piano piece "To a Wild Rose."

When you think about it, even the fanciest orchid is ultimately descended from wild flowers, just as we're descendants of cavemen.

I can name all provincial flowers!

Newfoundland:  pitcher plant

P.E.I.:  lady slipper

Nova Scotia:  mayflower

New Brunswick:  purple violet

Quebec:  madonna lily

Ontario:  trillium

Manitoba:  prairie crocus

Saskatchewan:  prairie lily

Alberta:  wild rose

B.C.:  Pacific dogwood

I had to look up two out of the three territorial flowers:

Yukon:  fireweed (that's the one I knew)

N.W.T.:  mountain avens

Nunavut:  purple saxifrage