Snow on the Mountain
By flyinggma
Tags: "ground cover", "Snow on the Mountain", beginning photography, fly, hillside, photography blog, summer
Category: Insects, Landscapes, Nature, photography, Plants, Spring scenes, Summer scenes
One of the hillsides in our yard is covered with Snow on the Mountain. It is a beautiful ground cover under our trees. It always looks cool and refreshing with its variegated leaves. I love the mix of the cream and green together on the leaves. I love Snow on the Mountain even more when it is blooming. I managed to catch a shot of a fly that loves the Snow on the Mountain as much as I do.
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Lovely photograph – and what a wonderful name: Snow on the Mountain!
Thanks, I love the name too. The people who owned the property before us planted the Snow on the Mountain. I am thankful they did.
Beautiful name and pic!
Looks similar to Queen Anne’s Lace. I wonder if they are related.
I don’t know my plants well enough to know if they are related. It may be time for some research.
Very beautiful. Cream and green. Calming. Thank you for sharing your photo. Blessings to you, Jeanne…
Thanks Carol. I do find the colors combined very calming especially when situated in the shade of the trees.
Here in Texas we have a plant also called snow-on-the-mountain (Euphorbia marginata), but it looks nothing like the one you’ve photographed. I guess the phrase is too good to pass up when people need to name various white flowers. We have a closely related species called snow-on-the-prairie (Euphorbia bicolor), too.
Steve Schwartzman
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com
Thanks for stopping by my blog Steve. The Snow on the Mountain we have here in Minnesota is Aegopodium ‘Variegatum’ . It is mostly cream and green variegated leaves and then it has the flowers that I displayed in the photo. I will have to stop by your blog to check out your Texas wildflowers.
Lovely photograph. And one of those great wildflower names.
I tried to find more flowers to photograph after I took this one but there haven’t been any more. I don’t know if this was the end of the flowering or just the only one that did. I thankful to capture the one I did.