I took a stroll through Highrock Park in Esquimalt yesterday and was rewarded by sighting a few of these tiny, early-blooming, spring wildfl...

Here's another native plant of the North Pacific Coast, the small (despite its name) Giant White Fawn Lily (Erythronium oregonum) . Thes...

While out at Matheson Lake Park on Saturday I was pleased to see some of our small local orchids blooming. I didn't realize until I got ...

Here's another early bloomer, the Satin-flower or Grasswidow. I find some little patches of these every year near the summit of Highroc...

I posted a photo of some Indian Plum blossoms last week as the first local spring wildflower to bloom this year. Here's another local wi...

This is the only kind of tiger you're likely to find in the forest around here, though cougars are regularly sighted on Vancouver Island...

I mentioned last week that I was having trouble identifying one of the two kinds of pink flowers I saw while out at Esquimalt Lagoon last we...

A few years ago I triumphantly posted a photo of my first sighting of the ghostly white saprophyte known as Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora...

I rode out to Witty's Lagoon yesterday and was happy to discover a small patch of these lovely little flowers beside the trail that lea...

I went up Bear Hill a few weeks ago specifically to check out the spring flowers and photographed this lovely little flower. I saw about a h...

I'm addicted to color. It's one of the reasons I am fond of photography but it also explains why I love spring and summer so much. T...

Here's another wildflower one can't help but like although it apparently is an invasive species from our neighbors to the south. Thi...

One of the challenges of photographing tiny little flowers like this one is that, perched on the top of slender stems, they are sensitive to...

This year I have decided to try to be a little more comprehensive when it comes to local wildflower blooms and include some of the less spec...

Also while on my first spring flowers walk in Highrock Park I found these Shooting Stars (Dodecatheon hendersonii) . These are named after ...

I was a little afraid that my trip to India meant that I missed the splendid progression of wildflowers that blooms here in the spring. So i...

In late spring and early summer roadsides and waste areas near the shorelines are decorated with the brilliant orange of California Poppies ...

The wonderfully strange and ghostly plant above is commonly called Indian Pipe, Ghost Plant or Corpse Plant (Monotropa uniflora) and it has...

These delicate blossoms belong to another member of the saxifrage family, the Threeleaf Foamflower (Tiarella trifoliata) . This is from my r...

Here's a member of the Saxifrage family that is exhibiting these delicate sprays of blossoms from the rocky cliffs that line the road le...