As we progressed farther along the trail we began to spot patches of red jumping out at us through all the rich forest greens that we were surrounded by. One’s eye could not help but be drawn to this beautiful site.
Upon closer inspection I immediately fell in love with this plant. I apologize for this post being nothing but pictures of it but I could not help but go crazy with photographing it. I’m actually having a hard time narrowing down which pictures of this plant to use today!
The plant that caught our full attention is another Pacific Northwest native. It is a Red-Flowering Currant (Ribes sanguineum) and we were sure happy to stumble upon it in full bloom.
Everywhere we walked we came upon this beautiful native. As we traveled deeper down the trail the red-flowering currants grew bigger and even more beautiful.
We took note that they seemed larger and fuller in the sun. The ones in shade appeared to be on the scrawny side. In the shade the red color really popped out at us though.
After seeing these gorgeous flowers in their native habitat I so badly want to run out and purchase one for my own yard.
The final picture I have to share today portrays the nature walk of a two and a half year old. My daughter really did not have a “nature walk”. She more or less had a nature run!
I think it must of felt pretty good to get out and run down that trail because she never stopped. In fact Mommy was quite aggravating her with my picture stalling ways!
I have a few more pictures to share tomorrow when I conclude this nature walk series. And I promise it will have more than just pictures of the red-flowering currants!
Now I know for sure that I WILL buy a red-flowering currant!
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What a wonderful native! Gorgeous colour — it looks like your daughter was happy to be out and about and communing with Nature again.
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Those are some gorgeous blooms on that native red flowering currant! Looks like you daughter enjoyed the excursion, lol.
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How could you help but take many pictures of that plant? It is gorgeous!
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Hi. Yes the Ribes is a stunning plant. Mine is just finishing up and after reading that they do better in sun, I may have to move mine. The shade isn’t doing it any favors. Your daughter is adorable.
The flowering currant is soo gorgeous. I probably would have filled up an entire memory card with shots of those flowers. We’ve got wild flowering currants here too, but they are far more modest than yours. Love your nature walk posts.
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Beautiful pictures, beautiful daughter!
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