I've never noticed a blooming box elder before. The pink, waving in the wind, caught my eye....
It was so windy that there was no way I was going to get a clear shot any closer than these. I'm not sure what's going on here. What *are* those pink things? Where exactly is the flower? I don't know. If I'd thought of it, I'd have plucked some of this to examine more closely once I got home. (Box elders are "weed trees;" I don't think anyone would mind.....) But I didn't think of it, and I bet all of this will be gone by next week when I'm back near my office. We'll see......
More of those red maple flowers.
I don't know what this is, but isn't it nice, against the brick?
Magnolia.
Magnolia.
Woo! Victorious! I have been trying to get a sharp picture of this plant for a loooong time. I pass it nearly every time I walk to or from work, and have taken dozens of pics of it, but every single pic has been blurry, until this one!
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Those feathery beauties!! The last image, I have this plant, I took it from my grandparents garden some years ago when they were both living. I just snapped off a branch and stuck it in the ground. Love the shape and the tiny pink flowers in late summer!
This is a box elder tree. Its leaves look a lot like poison ivy -- with points, and coming in threes -- but it has a tree's habit rather than a vine's. (My dad saw me weeding them out of the garden, one time, and asked me why I wasn't being more careful about that poison ivy....) Box elders shed a million seeds (as one might guess, if every one of those pink things has a flower at the end!), and if there is one anywhere near your garden, you are weeding them out, just like maples.
Given that it's blooming now, rather than late summer, I wonder if what you have is the same?
Sign me -- "NOT an expert on any of this!!!"
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