On our way up the garden today we saw that orange jewelweed plants have started flowering in the Lakeshore Preserve.
Impatiens capensis seedlings carpeted the forest floor during the weeks right after spring ephemerals returned to dormancy, and since then many jewelweeds have grown to four and five feet tall. Now there are just a few yellow flowers scattered between many plants, but soon each plant is likely to have an array of flowers, and forest areas with wet soils and lakeshores and marshes will have dense yellow and green where impatiens abounds. Later in September when the seeds are formed, go and touch a few of them to learn why these plants are in the touch-me-not family! It's safe, don't worry.
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