I Get Around

I once again went to a local pond to see how a few of the plants that live there were coming along. One of our most beautiful wild flowers, the Marsh St. Johnswort, blooms in mid to late August each year and I wanted to show it to you. But even though I tried to catch it in bloom a few times I missed it each time. This is a very fussy plant when it comes to light and if it isn’t in full sunshine it just will not open its flowers. I got there either just before or just after the flowers showed themselves, every time. All I got to see were its bright red chili pepper seedpods, which actually are pretty and nothing to sneeze at. These plants were wearing their fall colors. I thought I’d use a photo from the past to show you this flower, which is rare enough to be special. Marsh St. Johnswort (Hypericum virginicum) is as far as I know, our only pink St. Johnswort. All the others I’ve seen are yellow. If this plant likes the spot it grows in large colonies can form. but finding them is the…