Esther Alder 🇺🇦Spring flowers <br>
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📷 Canon R6 | 🎞️ Digital | 📍 Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, MN<br>
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Today the Star Tribune reminded me that lady’s slippers - Minnesota’s state flower - are starting to bloom. One of the places they recommended was Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, not far from Minneapolis.<br>
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I hadn’t been there before, so I went. The garden was charming, though a few trails (the ones where lady’s slippers are supposed to grow) were closed. So no state flower for me but I did find plenty of other wildflowers. And I liked the place enough to want to come back.<br>
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Plus, there are a bunch of bike trails nearby, so plenty left to explore.<br>
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Wildflowers spotted :<br>
Photo 1: wood poppy (🇺🇦UA: лісовий мак)<br>
Photo 2: wild columbine (🇺🇦UA: орлики канадські)<br>
Photo 3: trillium (🇺🇦UA: триліум)<br>
Photo 4: Common blue violet (?) (🇺🇦UA: фіалка блакитна)<br>
Photo 5: virginia bluebells (🇺🇦UA: вірджинські дзвіночки)<br>
Photo 6: not sure<br>
Photo 7: canada violet (канадська фіалка)<br>
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