Over the past few weeks, I’ve been spending hours photographing flowers in gardens, parks and arboretums. As much as I love seeing the daffodils, tulips, grape hyacinths, and other garden flowers, I’m even happier every year to see all the spring wildflowers. So many of them are so delicate and bloom for only a short time in very specific places, that I always feel like I’ve received a gift from Mother Nature when I see and photograph them.

I thought I’d share some of my favorite spring wildflowers photos from this year with you.

Yellow Trout Lily – Erythronium americanum – photographed at Jenkins Arboretum

Yellow Trout Lily – Erythronium americanum © 2019 Patty Hankins

Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex – photographed at Jenkins Arboretum

Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex © 2019 Patty Hankins

Dutchman’s Breeches – Dicentra cucullaria – photographed at Jenkins Arboretum

Dutchman’s Breeches – Dicentra Cucullaria © 2019 Patty Hankins

Virginia Bluebells – Mertensia virginica – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Virginia Bluebells – Mertensia Virginica © 2019 Patty Hankins

Squirrel Corn – Dicentra canadensis – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Squirrel Corn – Dicentra Canadensis © 2019 Patty Hankins

Spring Beauty – Claytonia virginica – photographed at Chanticleer Gardens

Spring Beauty – Claytonia Virginica © 2019 Patty Hankins

Rue Anemone – Thalictrum thalictroides – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Rue Anemone – Thalictrum thalictroides © 2019 Patty Hankins

Perfoliate Bellwort – Uvularia perfoliata – photographed at Chanticleer Gardens

Perfoliate Bellwort – Uvularia perfoliata © 2019 Patty Hankins

Grandiflorum Trillium – photographed at Longwood Gardens

Trillium Grandiflorum © 2019 Patty Hankins

Celadine Poppies  – Stylophorum diphyllum – photographed at Bartram’s Gardens

Celedine Poppies © 2019 Patty Hankins

White Trout Lily – Erythonium albidum – photographed along the C&O Canal

White Trout Lily – Erythronium albidum © 2019 Patty Hankins

I’m hoping to find more wonderful spring wildflowers to photograph this year. If you’d like to see what I’m finding, be sure to follow me on Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattyhankins/. Lately I’ve been posting photographs there as soon as I edit them.