When you’re stuck at home isolated indefinitely, with the world unraveling around you, what better way to spend it than surrounded by flowers you don’t even remember planting!  I’m very pleased to find some of my favorite wildflowers and perennials finally blooming.  Patience does pay off.  Even commonplace annual/edible flowers look good to me.  It helps keep my mind off all the insanity.

These are St. John’s Wort (Hypericum, a medicinal herb), and Missouri Evening Primrose (Oenothera), just opening for the first time.

I’ve mentioned this bright orange butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa, a species of native milkweed essential for butterflies and pollinators) happily blooming for the first time.  Also my English lavender.

These are zucchini blossoms, and a humble nasturtium looking like an exotic orchid.  Both flowers are edible.

These flowers (related to black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia) or Coreopsis?) are all over the place, looking cheerful in amongst all the daisies, poppies, etc.

And all these coneflowers (Echinacea-also medicinal) in shades of purple, pink, and white are doing likewise.

I used to be a flower snob, but as I age, I simply appreciate every single flower that chooses to grace us with its presence and play a part enhancing the environment.  I wish I could share them with loved ones and friends, but photos will have to suffice for now.  You’ll continue to see the same ones as they unfold, plus their critter friends, because I never get tired of them.  Yeah, I’m a BioGeek.  I hope they cheer you up, too.

Just wait until more of the “prairie” natives start to take off, and attract pollinators and wildlife.  I’ll be insufferable.