The largest Green Dragon plant I know is right along the path leading back to the creek, about 40 feet west of the mulch pile on the left side of the path. Earlier I posted a picture of the flower of a different plant; here are the developing berries. They turn bright red when ripe.
This plant is easy to find if you want to look for it. At the left is a picture of its location, a few feet left of a log by the path. The plant whose flower I posted a picture of earlier is harder; it's a ways west of the meeting for worship in nature area.
After spending so much time pulling and spraying Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica), a FEPC category I
exotic invasive, it's good to come across the native Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) growing naturally. I recently noticed a strand of this one right in the path, growing up a dried stem not much thicker than it was. Unfortunately the support (like so many of the green plants around here in the current drought) has dried out and fallen; however the honeysuckle seems to be going strong. It's about fifteen feet east of the Green Dragon, also on (and in) the left side of the path. I'm not expecting much in the way of flowers on this one, since it doesn't get much sun there.
Here is a picture of the one we bought at the Native Plant Sale last spring and planted by the fence in the children's yard. This year we bought two more and planted one on each side of this.
