Sorry about the delay- I got busy with a show and never posted the final wildflower photos from my spring trip to Tennessee and North Carolina. All of these wildflower photos were taken in Asheville. I’ve found two absolutely spectacular places to photograph flowers in the Asheville area – the Asheville Botanical Gardens and the North Carolina Arboretum. If you’re in the area and looking for wonderful flowers – I really recommend visiting one or both of these public gardens.

I spent several hours on the last morning of my trip at the Asheville Botanical Gardens. Here are a few of the flowers I photographed there.

White Trillium – Trillium Grandiflorum

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

Flowering Dogwood – Corus Florida

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

And a wonderful Siberian Iris  – not a native wildflower but still a beautiful iris

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

I then headed over to the North Carolina Arboretum. I hoped to photograph some of the wonderful azaleas in the Azalea and Rhododendron collection. I was really pleased with what I saw and was able to photograph there.

Here’s a wonderful Astrinum Gold Florida Azalea bush

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

And finally – the last wildflower I photographed on my trip – a single pink ladyslipper growing in the woods along one of the paths at the Arboretum

(c) 2010 Patty Hankins

I hope you’ve enjoyed my photos from my spring wildflower trip – I had a fantastic time. I’m already starting to plan my next couple of trips. If all goes well I’ll be back in North Carolina to photograph the rhododendron in June and then heading to Colorado for summer wildflowers in July.