RED LIKE I’D NEVER BEFORE SEEN
First Sightings
The first time I saw cardinal flowers, they were growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field in southern Delaware. Their intense, red color took my breath away, in part, because of their surroundings. After all, this was no well-tended, perennial flower border, where colorful flowers would be expected. No, growing along that ditch, those cardinal flowers were “mere” wildings.
What’s more, the plants were blooming in deep shade, a place usually lit, if then, by white flowers.
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