It’s mid September and the Parkway meadows are filled with Coreopsis and Black Eyed Susan, Queen Anne’s Lace, Butterfly Weed and Joe Pye. All of those late summer blooms that fill the roadsides with color. The early signs of fall are present throughout the northern sections of the Parkway. Dogwoods have assumed a little bit […]

Here in late summer along the Parkway the meadows are filled with Coreopsis and Black Eyed Susan, Queen Anne’s Lace, Butterfly Weed and Joe Pye Weed. All of those late summer blooms that fill the meadows with color. In the northern areas of the Parkway also look for Ox Eyed Daisy and Touch Me Not, […]

Here in late summer along the Parkway the meadows are filled with Coreopsis and Black Eyed Susan, Queen Anne’s Lace, Butterfly Weed, Joe-Pye Weed. All of those late summer blooms that fill the meadows with color. On the north end of the Parkway look for Joe-Pye and Goldenrod, Queen Anne’s Lace, Black Eyed Susan, Blazing […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for August 7. Here in late summer along the Parkway the meadows are filled with Coreopsis and Black Eyed Susan, Queen Anne’s Lace, Butterfly Weed and Joe Pye Weed. All of those late summer blooms that fill the meadows with color this time of year. In the […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway wildflower report for the end of July 2009. Wildflower blooms don’t go away when spring has past us here in the Blue Ridge. For many visitors the mid-summer blooms are just as special. On the north end of the Parkway between milepost 0 at Rockfish Gap and through the […]