Why I love living in the country-- look what I found growing in the yard!!!!

[plath]

This is growing on the side of the house. We didn't plant it, and I don't think it was there last year, but dh used roundup on that side of the house last year, so he could have killed it last year:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/plath/DSC01691.jpg

Can you tell what it is? It's a pitcher plant! AKA a carnivorous plant. It's sooo cool!!!!!

Here's a few more pictures up close of the pitchers where the bugs get caught and eaten.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/plath/DSC01692.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/plath/DSC01693.jpg

I also took Marzi out back last night and way down by our burn pile we had little pinkish flowers. Well, I looked them up and they're wild geraniums (they're also called crane's bill), so I dug some up and put them in my garden:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/plath/DSC01696.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v153/plath/DSC01695.jpg

There were also a few trillium, but I couldn't take a pic this morning because it started to rain. They look like this: http://www.silkpursefarm.on.ca/images/2002/trillium.jpg

[Kim]

Beautiful pics Lisa

[Krissy]

Very pretty!

[Bit]

Great pictures!

[MaryAnn]

good pictures very nice

[holbear]

How cool!

[Oweazaer]

it's not a pitcher plant! It's a Jack-in-the-Pulpit! You must be from another part of the country than me! :yep:
And I've got wild geraniums blooming all over the place, too! They will spread! and they grow in shade! WHOPEE!

[Cardy]

I've never heard of a pitcher plant but I have heard of Jack in the pulpit... didn't know it grew in Michigan.

[Kristen]

Cool plant. :yep: