Wild Flowers

Unicorn Art's Wildflowers Collection

I began enjoying nature's eye candy, wildflowers, at an early age. My grandmother loved wildflowers. I remember trekking along country roads in rural Colorado looking for those delightful splashes of color with which mother nature adorns her otherwise barren prairie landscapes. She's been gone for many years now, and the memories of her passion for wildflowers were becoming dim until I found, in a box of her treasures, a tattered manila envelope with pages of pressed wild flowers she and I had picked and pressed over 40 years ago.

I had loosely taped the flowers to sheets of paper with my childish printing identifying each one. I carefully removed the flowers from the sheets, amazed at how bright they still were, and mounted them in bouquet arrangements. The results are shown here. The flowers I had identified and now somewhere in these pictures are: Blue Larkspur, Wall Flower, Cream Cinquefil, Purple Aster, Water Hyacinth, Rocky Mountain Ice Plant, Evening Star, and Snow-on-the-mountain.

In the same box with my pressed flowers I also found reproductions of 1914 paintings of wildflower bouquets that capture the fragile beauty of the blossoms. Below are highly compressed versions of those wild flower water colors by Anna Linder. Click on any of the pictures to see a larger version of the print.

Now I live in the Central Coast of California which is blessed with an abundance of wildflowers. The California Poppy grows in profusion along roadsides, and our hills bloom with color every spring. I planted a variety of native wildflowers around my patio so I could enjoy their beauty just by looking out my back door. I picked the bouquet shown on the left in just a couple of minutes on a summer morning. The seeds came from a local hardware store. There are also websites that specialize in wildflower seeds, 2 are listed in the links below.

There's some great wildflower photos and informative guides in other wildflower sites you may want to look at. Click on the picture to go to any of these websites.

Click the pic! What you'll find:

For some breathtaking wildflower photography, see More Wild Flowers by Steve Hoffmann. His table of contents link titled FLOWER PHOTOS will take you to more wildflower pictures, some of them landscapes covered with wildflower beauty.

Lady Bird Johnson's Wildflower Center site. This site, founded by Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes in 1982, is dedicated to providing information about growing and protecting North America's native plants. Lots of good information here, and you just may want to become a member when you read about what this center is doing to preserve the natural beauty of our habitat.

Kids Farm - Wildflowers of Colorado. Wonderful site for children, check the index for everything else available on the farm. The farm animal pictures elsewhere on this site are fun also - and be sure the sound is turned on!

California Plants & Habitats. I live in California and found this site the most useful for identifying its native wildflowers. It has an awesome searchable database with pictures from more than 20,000 images of California plants, of individual flowers as well as their habitats. To find the picture on the left, I typed in "California Poppy" and got 14 pictures of poppies including poppy-covered hillsides. You can also search by flower color if that's the only information you have about a wildflower you wish to identify.

Johnston Seed Company Wildflower site. Give nature a hand - grow your own wild flowers! This site and the one below provide pictures, descriptions, and seed ordering instructions.

Wildseed Farms site. A well organized site with lots of selections of wildflower seeds and mixes to order. Here you can learn all you need to about how to plant wildflowers, there's even Wildflower Planting video you can order.

Blupete's Wildflowers of Nova Scotia. A nice alphabetical listing of wildflowers from Nova Scotia. It has many beautiful images you can select individually. The Lady Slippers pictures I found under "L" are lovely.

GardenWeb Wildflowers. This is a great little site to join. You can subscribe to a monthly newsletter or look up a calendar of flower related events.

The Woodlands Wildflowers. This Texas site provides a collection of local flowers, the photos are of single blossoms and includes information about each one.

Almaden Wildflowers site. You'll like this one, it has links to special effects like Wildflowers "movies", a scrolling applet. Click on the link titled "Fantasy picture" for a great composite of California wildflowers.

Click the pic!	What you'll find:
	For some breathtaking wildflower photography, see More Wild Flowers by Steve Hoffmann. His table of contents link titled FLOWER PHOTOS will take you to more wildflower pictures, some of them landscapes covered with wildflower beauty.
	Lady Bird Johnson's Wildflower Center site. This site, founded by Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes in 1982, is dedicated to providing information about growing and protecting North America's native plants. Lots of good information here, and you just may want to become a member when you read about what this center is doing to preserve the natural beauty of our habitat.
	Kids Farm - Wildflowers of Colorado. Wonderful site for children, check the index for everything else available on the farm. The farm animal pictures elsewhere on this site are fun also - and be sure the sound is turned on!
	California Plants & Habitats. I live in California and found this site the most useful for identifying its native wildflowers. It has an awesome searchable database with pictures from more than 20,000 images of California plants, of individual flowers as well as their habitats. To find the picture on the left, I typed in "California Poppy" and got 14 pictures of poppies including poppy-covered hillsides. You can also search by flower color if that's the only information you have about a wildflower you wish to identify.
	Johnston Seed Company Wildflower site. Give nature a hand - grow your own wild flowers! This site and the one below provide pictures, descriptions, and seed ordering instructions.
	Wildseed Farms site. A well organized site with lots of selections of wildflower seeds and mixes to order. Here you can learn all you need to about how to plant wildflowers, there's even Wildflower Planting video you can order.
	Blupete's Wildflowers of Nova Scotia. A nice alphabetical listing of wildflowers from Nova Scotia. It has many beautiful images you can select individually. The Lady Slippers pictures I found under "L" are lovely.
	GardenWeb Wildflowers. This is a great little site to join. You can subscribe to a monthly newsletter or look up a calendar of flower related events.
	The Woodlands Wildflowers. This Texas site provides a collection of local flowers, the photos are of single blossoms and includes information about each one.
	Almaden Wildflowers site. You'll like this one, it has links to special effects like Wildflowers "movies", a scrolling applet. Click on the link titled "Fantasy picture" for a great composite of California wildflowers.

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