This is the Blue Ridge Parkway Wildflower Report for the first week of May. May is the best overall month for wildflowers along the Parkway and as the days get longer and temperatures warm up the forest floor and tree tops are well on their way to their transition to bright green. Bloodroot is showy […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway Wildflower Report for early May 2010. As the days get longer and temperatures warm up the forest floor and tree tops are beginning that annual transition to bright green. Look for Spring Beauty and Mayapple, early arrivals of the spring, as you walk Parkway trails or look in the […]

This is the Blue Ridge Parkway spring wildflower report for mid-April. As the days get longer and temperatures warm up, the forest floor and tree tops began that annual transition to bright green. The major threat for winter weather is obviously behind us but there can still be spring snow storms that come our way. […]

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, […]