Bee #2

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Jacob’s Ladder (Polemonium caeruleum) was given its common name because the arrangement of its leaves is somewhat ladder-like. This is a beautiful clear summer sky blue with contrasting yellow anthers and loved by bees. A pretty, delicate perennial.

 

April Flower: Camassia cusickii

C. cusickii is an upright perennial forming a clump of long, linear leaves; starry blue flowers 5cm wide are carried in a tall raceme in late spring