Golden Rain trees are easy to grow from seed and flower while young.
Category Archives: Flowers
Flowering Elderberries
Elderberries are the most noticeable when they have huge clusters of flowers. Later they will have berries for a short period of time before the birds eat them.
Sumac Flowers and Fruit
Smooth Sumac is flowering while the Staghorn Sumac are developing their showy fruit. .
What Catalpas
I am growing a few different Catalpas. Purple Catalpa is a fast growing Hybrid Catalpa tree. This Catalpa tree has new leaves that are colored purple, but as they age, the leaves do turn green. Chinese Catalpa flowers at an early age and also reliably flowers each year.
Black Locust Summer Flowers
The Black Locust(Robinia) trees had flowered earlier this year, though there has been a few sparse flowers appearing lately.
Chicory Pasture
A good patch of Chicory is growing in a pasture. The flowers are opened up in the morning and quickly create a blue cast over the pasture.
American Chestnut Flowering
Chestnut trees flower late, especially this year in early July. The American Chestnut(Castanea dentata) flowers high up in the canopy. The photo above is of a Hybrid Chestnut that has flowers closer to the ground.
Pitlolly Pine & Hybrid Chestnut
The Pitlolly Pines took a big hit last winter, here is one Pitch x Loblolly Hybrid Pine still shaking off the bad winter: In the background is a Hybrid Chestnut tree flowering.
Thistle Island
It has rained a lot this month, and right now this island is fully surrounded by water. Currently the island is covered in field thistles(Cirsium discolor).
Giant Fleece Flower
Giant Fleece Flower(Persicaria polymorpha) is a large flowering perennial. This plant flowers for a long duration.