01/22/25

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  This is another of my favorites.  I would see this flower blooming along the road a lot and really liked it so I planted some in my yard.  This is Chicory and it blooms July through September normally though I had found it blooming into November this past year.  A lot of the time it is difficult to photograph because the blooms will usually close by noon on bright days so they would not be open while I was home.  

11/13/24

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  This is another flower that surprised me this past week.  I was walking to get the mail and looked down and saw several blue blooms of my Chicory!  That was quite the surprise as it is usually not even blooming at this time of the day much less this time of the year.  Chicory usually blooms July through September, this plant was obviously confused.  Chicory grows along roadsides fairly commonly and can be seen along I-70 in Kansas and Missouri during it's regular bloom time fairly consistently.

10/5/22

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  Today's flower is one I don't get to see very often.  This is Chicory.  The flowers close up during the day.  It blooms July through September.  I was able to capture this on a cloudy day when the flowers stayed open longer.

12/8/21

 It's Wildflower Wednesday here on the Blog!  I have some Chicory that migrated into my driveway and was even mowed down by the public right of way mowers but recovered enough to bloom.  I was able to capture this in the first week of November.  It is a 2 image stack to get all three flowers in focus.

12/9/20

 It's Wildflower Wednesday on the Blog!  Today is one I have shared before but it's one of my favorites.  This is Chicory and can be seen growing wild along the highway in Kansas in summer.  Mine in my yard was still blooming even after the first hard frost we had in October which really surprised me.  I notice in looking at this picture in comparison with an earlier one when I uploaded it that the blooms in the colder weather are more blue than the purple they are in the summer.  Interesting.  I don't often get to enjoy the blooms of Chicory as they close up during the heat of the day.

7/22/20

It's Wildflower Wednesday on the Blog once again.  Today's flower is Chicory.  It blooms a lot along I-70 in Kansas and Missouri and can be seen in several states.  The first time I saw it to know what it was, was in West Virginia a few years back.  I took this image of it in my yard though.  I planted it several years ago and it has done well, maybe too well as it moved out of the garden and into the edge of the driveway.  You usually have to see it before noon as the flowers close up when the hot sun starts beating down on it.  The flowers are blue and purple.

I hope you have been checking out my Wildflowers By Colors pages that I reworked with lots more added and now contain blooming times in Kansas.  You can find then at the top of the Blog.

3/1/19

Well, it's finally March though it will not seem like it for a while here.  Snow this weekend is in the forecast and bitter cold on Monday.  Sigh  I am dreaming of summer days today.  This is an image of some Dreamy Chicory (I actually had a title) that I took in my garden this past summer.  I loved the bokeh in the image and Fridays are all about the bokeh.  😃

4/9/18

Well, I have been very bad.  Crazy days getting home late and totally forgetting to post.  This is an older image from the archives of some Chicory blooms that I applied a paint effect to.