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Wild Flowers of Haida Gwaii

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I loved seeing all the wild flowers everywhere on Haida Gwaii – a beautiful bounty.

Wild morning glories. These were growing next to a vegetable garden fence, but we saw them everywhere, even in the forest. These are not bindweed, an invasive plant that looks like morning glory.
Crane’s Bill. Very, very tiny blooms. I found these growing next to a beach.
Wild pea.
Alberta wild rose.
Wild foxglove. These are everywhere too, in forests and next to beaches and roads.
Cloudberry flowers. There are huge numbers of these growing all over. Some of the fruit are already very ripe.
Nope, this isn’t a wild flower, but I thought I would add a picture of a cloudberry. Very sweet with tangy overtones.
Buttercups are so bright and pretty!
And my favourite, daisies.

We also saw many, many bees on Haida Gwaii. Their numbers have been dropping in lots of places so it was fantastic to see them thriving.

Happy Wednesday.

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Dogwood Tree

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British Columbia’s provincial flower is the Pacific dogwood.

The name comes from the fact that sailors used the wood of this tree to make nails, otherwise known as dags – or later, dogs – in ship repairs.

It has been British Columbia’s provincial flower since 1956.

So elegant and sparkling in either white or the dogwood’s alternative colour, pink, it’s another marvellous addition to the spring pantheon of beauty.

Happy Tuesday.