flowers in my new neighborhood

[redbird]

I'm happily exploring spring in my (relatively) new neighborhood. I saw, and in a few cases smelled, a lot of flowers today.

There were two delightful surprises: several rhododendron bushes in flower (all red), and a white violet growing out of a crack in the sidewalk half a block from my apartment.

Unsurprising but still delightful: daffodil, forsythia, maple, periwinkle, and magnolia. Few people seem to appreciate maple flowers. These are the first periwinkles I've seen this year, and we've been watching the forsythia bushes and maple trees go from start blooming over the week or so. (The forsythias I saw in Cambridge on Monday were already covered with flowers, which these aren't yet.)

We also saw a dwarf cherry tree, and a few dandelions.

[reposted/expanded from a Mastodon toot, because this site doesn't have the same character limits.]

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Hooray for fllowers!

[otter]

I have two maple trees in my yard (one silver, one red). I love them in all seasons. Their flowers are modest compared the crab apple growing next to them.

[pameladean]

Maple flowers are not showy but they are actually fairly fancy.

P.

[bibliofile]

Yay for spring flowers, out in the wild (as it were). Another good reason for leaving the house.