Many of us admire trees from a distance or walk by and look up to see how big a tree is. If you have never stopped to take a really close look you are missing something grand, especially this time of year. Some trees, red and silver maples for example, have already flowered and are forming seed. Sycamore still has seed pods from last year, but not for long. Other species have buds packed with flowers and leaves just beginning to open. The unfurling is almost magical. When you are near a tree, stop for just a moment and take a look.
American plum
Redbud buds
Redbud flowers sometimes look like hummingbirds
Silver maple seeds
Winged elm seed
American elm (cultivar) new seed
Red maple flowers are already gone
Maple leaves emerging
Serviceberry flowers
Fuzzy pawpaw bud
New pawpaw flower
Sycamore seed pod, beautiful bark
Sassafras bud packed with flowers
Sassafras flowers
New oak leaves
Beech flowers and leaves
Hickory bud loosing it’s cap (bud scale)
Hickory bud ready to pop
Hickory leaves unfurling
Hickory, new leaves
Sweet gum male catkins
Sweet gum female flower
Buckeye
River birch female catkins
River birch male catkins
Yellow (tulip) poplar remnants of seed pods
Tulip poplar leaves just emerging
Yellow (tulip) poplar flower
Fuzzy cucumber magnolia bud
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