This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for August 17, 2007. Triple digit temperatures have gripped much of the Virginia and North Carolina piedmont over the past two weeks. So, the Parkway has been an especially popular place to find temperatures sometimes as much as twenty degrees cooler. It has also been very dry, […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for August 10, 2007. As we enter the last month of the summer, the Parkway becomes the first choice for a place to escape the sweltering heat of the piedmont and lowlands. Temperatures are often twenty or more degrees lower especially in the high elevations of the […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for August 3rd. As we enter the last month of summer, the Parkway becomes the first choice in a place to escape the sweltering temperatures of the Piedmont and lowlands. With temperatures often being 20 or more degrees lower, especially in the higher elevations of the park […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for July 27th. Late July is a grand time to come to the Parkway for the wonderful variety of summer blooms and to escape the heat of the lowlands. The high plateau that begins south of Roanoke, Virginia and continue into North Carolina around Doughton Park is […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for July 20th, 2007. If you’re coming to the highlands for a relief from the heat of the piedmont, here is some of what you may expect in mid July. Don’t think that wildflower observations end in the spring because to many folks the summer blooms are […]