Shady
River's Wild Flowers
Spring
2012 Gallery
Arkansas calls itself the "Natural State". Our
county, Randolph, is blessed with five different rivers and
innumerable creeks.
Imagine these rivers tightly wound through the
Ozark Mountains heading for the delta, and add the clean air and
lack of noise pollution. Sunrise usually brings many white-tailed
deer onto our pastures, often wandering in a silvery haze of early
morning fog. We have seen as many as forty turkeys at one time, and
twenty deer. Raccoons, squirrels, beavers, groundhogs, minks, coyotes,
and armadillos abound.
The great blue herons are magnificent in every
respect, and snowy white trumpeter swans are seen during their
migratory season. There are pileated woodpeckers, tanagers, indigo
buntings, white egrets, blue birds, swallows, finches, hawks, turkey vultures,
kingfishers, bald eagles, an occasional oriole for a splash of
orange, and many iridescent humming birds at our feeders. Since our
county is the point where the Ozark Mountains meet the flat
Mississippi Delta land, we have a lot more variety of plants and
animals than can be found in strictly mountain or strictly delta
counties.
The aquatic side of Nature is represented by
the clean, natural state of the Eleven Point River. The river has a
dominant influence on our farm and is a magnet for many animals that
live in the region. It's also Arkansas' number one Walleye stream!
We don't allow hunting or trapping on our
property.
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Month(s) Blooms Appear |
What's In Bloom at Shady River |
| March |
Old fashioned Jonquil, Forsythia,
Verbena |
| April - May |
Trout Liliy, Verbena, Sweet
William, Dogwood, Red Bud, May Apple , Bellwort,
Trillium, Ox Eye Daisy, False Garlic, Crested Iris,
Goat's Rue, Violet, Shooting Star |
| June |
Elderberry, Queen Anne's Lace, Water Hemlock, Solomon's
Seal, False Solomon's Seal, Daylily, Butterfly Weed,
Black-eyed Susan, Bee Balm (Monarda), Wild Rose,
Ever-lasting Pea, Ohio Horsemint, Musk Thistle, Hairy
Vetch, Spider Wort, Mullein, Indian Pink, Hoary Vervain,
Moth Mullein, Trumpet Creeper, White Heath Aster,
Leather Flower, Larkspur, Widow's Cross, Rattle Weed |
| July-August |
Verbena, Sunflower, Passion Flower, Spider Lily,
Blackberry Lily, Dog Fennel, Arkansas Ironweed,
Buttercup, Morning Glory, Floss Flower (Ageratum), Rose
Mallow, Marsh Mallow, Smooth Petunia, Cardinal Flower |
Some wild flowers we've photographed at
Shady River
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Spring 2012 at
Shady River
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Driveway into Shady River.
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New dock for 2012.
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Linda and the new baby!
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