Beautiful tree in our backyard!
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I love looking at flowers in my neighborhood! I don’t know much about them, maybe one of you can tell me what this lovely tree is? I spotted it today!
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That looks like it might be a grafted Japanese Snowbell? (Styrax Japonica). They’ve very sweet smelling when they bloom, and the petals fall individually to make this really lovely carpet. Our neighbor used to have one that leaned over our fence, I adored it.
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How I love trillium!
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Ooo, thank you! Yes, it’s so unusual looking and every season it does blanket the yard with petals.
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Oxalis?
Huh, yep, seems likely. Could be a species I don’t know, maybe O violacea. We have a couple of the yellow-flowered varieties very common around here, but I haven’t seen this before. I’ll taste a leaf tomorrow and report back with a definitive answer. 
Update: remembered to taste a leaf. Yep, definitely oxalis species.
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Apparently O violacea is threatened or endangered in five states! (!!!) So you have a pretty cool plant there.
(We have TONS of oxalis here, though most of it is O. pes-caprae)
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I saw that when I looked it up (the USDA plants database is my friend)
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I want to snuggle it so hard.
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Exciting update: found two Trillium decumbens in bloom up by our barn. I’ve been looking for them for years; I knew they should be on this property, but I’ve never seen them here before.
Picture at this post above:
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It is too early yet for flowers here at 7k feet, so here are some high alpine beauties from last summer, on the solstice at sunset. Whenever I get tired of Winter (that happened a lot this year) I just look through photos of wildflowers in the alpine and remember that snow=amazing flowers.
and some more beauties, with a furry marmot friend.
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