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Jenks Farmer's avatar

Thanks Carla - hope the house is coming along.

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Becki Clifton's avatar

Southern Sekki…I like it! And yes, I have noticed the lavender haze arriving late on the coastal plain of Georgia as well but some things have been WAY early that I’ve almost missed them like the pink wild azaleas. My pink ladies have just started showing their lovely faces and usually I don’t see them until the end of April. I’ve noticed catalpa’s blooming around the county but mine are still sleeping and my poor turkey fig that was whipped by the hurricane is setting fruit & leaves at the same time. I’ve NEVER seen it do that before!

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Barbara Bruns's avatar

Just saw a purple field a few weeks ago. Turned around & went for another look. Beautiful!!

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

i’m allergic to ragweed but adore toadflax.

i remember working as an ecologist and identifying toadflax for my supervisor who had never seen it.

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Jenks Farmer's avatar

Some one else told me on this site, that they’d just pulled up a bunch of ‘that weed’ from their yard! “never seen it,” “pulled it up,” “weed,” this is why we do what we do — to help other people see.

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Mary Dansak's avatar

I love it. I call it "Old Field Toad Flax," something from childhood. I was just trying to take pictures of it yesterday. If I can actually get my camera to focus on a blossom, the picture always ends up looking like a floating flower. The word "sneeze" comes to mind with I think of this flower. I have a picture of my stepmother standing amongst it in one of my photo albums labeled, "Janie in a sneeze of old field toad flax." Thanks for this today!

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Anna Meadows Helvie's avatar

Growing up in the coastal plain of NC, this was absolutely the spring flower for me...and yes, I did wander in a field, looking to be immersed in that lavender, and never getting there. In some fields there would be a huge patch of toadflax adjacent to a huge patch of sheep sorrel, and the contrasting reds and lavenders would be very pretty.

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Tim Farmer's avatar

Lavender haze forever.

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Mike Harmon's avatar

Toad flax is one of several reasons I leave my lawn unmowed in the early spring. Good luck with your seed gathering.

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Katie Weinberger's avatar

I’ve been wondering about those little flowers. Thank you 💚

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Janisse Ray's avatar

Jenks, that is a glorious field of flax.

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Jenks Farmer's avatar

yes it is. in this case though, there’s a sadness to it. you know flax happens in a fallow field. we are afraid the adjacent farm has quit farming this year in order to selloff for development.

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Carla Brophy's avatar

I just love your story telling!!! I was in the field. Lavender color everywhere and yet nowhere!

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