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Wellfleet oysters, crassostrea virginica, are substantial, briny but not overwhelmingly so, and do not shoot geysers of blood when you bite into them.

Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010

Wellfleet oysters, crassostrea virginica, are substantial, briny but not overwhelmingly so, and do not shoot geysers of blood when you bite into them.

Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010

A few that come to mind — Mertensia virginica Virginia bluebells, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Perennial plumbago, and this little [...]

Virginia bluebells: a kaleidoscope of spring color « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) are budded up and ready to burst, and the celandine poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum) are showing.

The big reveal « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

In the U.S., the most widely grown oyster is the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), which is farmed down the East Coast and Chesapeake Bay.

Oysters Come Back in Vogue Will Lyons 2010

A few that come to mind — Mertensia virginica Virginia bluebells, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Perennial plumbago, and this little beauty.

Now showing: Veronica ped. ‘Georgia Blue’ « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

For instance, the large leaves of Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) completely disappear with no cleanup required.

Plant native bulbs now for thriving Midwest gardens 2010

George Yatskievych of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis says spring beauty, Claytonia virginica, is his favorite.

Plant native bulbs now for thriving Midwest gardens 2010

Shown above are Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica overlaying Japanese maple ‘Peaches And Cream’, Acer palmatum ‘Peaches And Cream’The years trolled by, and each summer became drier until the last two years our area has been proclaimed to be in extreme drought, the worst level.

The Sunny Woodland-GBDW* « Fairegarden 2009

'Henry's Garnet' Sweetspire Itea virginica 'Henry's Garnet' seems to get stuck as an afterthought during Spring landscape designing, so The Green Man mentions it now.

SWEETSPIRE 'HENRY'S GARNET' Pooky 2009