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The locust trees are flowering locally, and so I discovered yesterday from the scent that there are a couple of locust trees across the street from our new apartment.
I discovered locust trees as an adult, while we were living in Inwood, and came to like them a lot. They were a popular tree to plant in the northeastern US a few decades ago, but no longer are. Volunteer locust seedlings can be a nuisance, because the young/thin trunk branches have spines, presumably to protect them from being eaten by bison or horses or something. (They're native to North America.)
I'd seen locusts through the windows of moving buses and trolleys in the last few days, but wasn't sure of the identification--there are other kinds of tree that flower in the spring and produce clusters of white flowers.
We are still getting to know our new neighborhood, including finding some of the spring-flowering shrubs and trees.
I discovered locust trees as an adult, while we were living in Inwood, and came to like them a lot. They were a popular tree to plant in the northeastern US a few decades ago, but no longer are. Volunteer locust seedlings can be a nuisance, because the young/thin trunk branches have spines, presumably to protect them from being eaten by bison or horses or something. (They're native to North America.)
I'd seen locusts through the windows of moving buses and trolleys in the last few days, but wasn't sure of the identification--there are other kinds of tree that flower in the spring and produce clusters of white flowers.
We are still getting to know our new neighborhood, including finding some of the spring-flowering shrubs and trees.