The Green Garden Group at Twin Lakes

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April 10 2:30 Join us in Sullivan Woods for an old fashioned Easter Egg Hunt - over 400 eggs in the Woods - reachable from the path - please don't walk on the emerging plants.

April 16 9am We leave for a trip to the Ceiner Botanical Gardens, lunch to follow.

April 18, Green Garden Group host the Dogwood Garden Club for their monthly meeting and luncheon. A tour of the Woods to be the highlight.

April 27 and 28 Green Garden Group hosts the Bishop of North Carolina's task force : Caring for God's Creation

May 2,3,4 Green Garden Group travels to Lutherock. We will be privileged to be guided through this special corner of God's World by Dr. Ed Hauser.

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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Everytime we go to the woods we find something new!

For those wishing to find these fine fellows in Sullivan Woods, the Sundew is in the bog, the Purple Passionflower is growing up the "tepee" at the end of Dogwood trail, the Yellow Passionflower is growing up the large tree at the end of the driveway leading to the generator enclosure, and the Pinesap is growing in the area of the exercise equipment on the east side and is marked by white flags.
A close view of the sundew (Drosera)
-photo by Linda Lafferty

Purple Passionflower  (Passiflora incarnata)
-photo by Linda Lafferty

Yellow Passionflower ( Passiflora lutea)
-photo by Linda Lafferty


Pinesap (Monotropa hypopithys)
-photo by Linda Lafferty

This is a very unusual looking plant ( rare or endangered if Wikopedia is to be believed) it is not a fungus, but rather an herbaceous plant without chlorophyll, thought to live off fungus.