From Weed to Wonder: A Tiny Bouquet

It's the little things that can make a difference!

For Easter I asked artificial intelligence for advice on how to get my house ready. Chat suggested a tiny bouquet in the bathroom.

And so I looked around and found a tiny crystal vase I had no idea I had. I do not know where it came from! I was looking for a different vase and found this.

Then I went outside, saw a sea of Lesser Celandine, and picked three flowers.

Lesser Celandine are those little buttercup-like yellow flowers. I know their name because of my Seek app. It is everywhere right now in Buffalo! The Buffalo Zoo is a sea of yellow. Every place is a sea of yellow. Of course, now we have the dandelions, too.

Lesser Celandine is a despised weed elsewhere. But not in this house! I liked that little bouquet. I loved what it did for the bathroom.

Today in Delaware Park I saw some tiny lavender flowers I had never seen before. I checked my Seek app and it had the most beautiful name. It is Virginia Springbeauty!

The native range of Virginia Springbeauty is also known as eastern spring beauty, grass-flower or fairy spud, native to eastern North America. Its scientific name is Claytonia virginica. The “Claytonia” is in honor of Colonial Virginia botanist John Clayton (1694-1773).

I love how wind up with these names. You think the name Zinnia is Mexican or something, however it is named after German botanist and anatomist Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727-1759).

Anyway, I plucked a few Virginia Springbeauty — there were tons of them in the park — into my tiny vase today. That is it at the top of this post. Those flowers are such a beautiful whitish shade of lavender. Then I paired them with more Lesser Celandine, and a few violets that were growing by my driveway.

Here I am holding the flowers so you can see how tiny they are.

I think I will continue maintaning a vase of tiny flowers in my home.

It’s the little things that make a difference!