"Spring Is Busting Out All Over"

[GoDawgs]

“Spring is bustin’ out all over”, says the old song and around here it’s true. Despite all the pollen it’s always a special time when the earth renews itself and dresses up for the occasion.

Chinese Fringe (Loropetalum chinense) sports its red fringy flowers while the green foliage begins taking on its burgundy tint. It will bloom off and on all spring and summer.




Fothergilla x ‘Mt. Airy’ is a two season plant. In spring it sports bottle brush-like blooms that have a slightly sweet scent. Turning into ho hum green for the summer, the leaves will turn to flaming red in the fall before falling off and leaving the plant naked for the winter.




Grancy Graybeard (Chionanthus virginicus) is a rather awkward tree whose branches grow in a rather untidy, every-which-way fashion but it’s glorious in bloom. That’s the redeeming quality that’s kept it from the chainsaw.




And finally, the muscadine grapevines are starting to leaf out. Jelly for sure this fall and perhaps another wine making effort.



With all of this going on at once and joining the late Camellias and blooming azaleas, I just can’t help smiling when walking around the place. Springtime here in east central Georgia is special.

[kath]

So very beautiful! We're still in the daffodil, forsythia, redbud, shadbush stage but it's still so exciting to see things greening up and blooming again. Once the pollen arrives, it's harder to appreciate as a severe allergy sufferer.