Friday, March 19, 2021

Tyler Arboretum Early Spring (3/19/2021)

Friday, March 19, 2021
Tom R reported on a Wildflower Walk at Tyler Arboretum and mentioned the skunk cabbage were up. We had to go for a look, since we usually see skunk cabbage as large green leaves.
Galanthus sp/Snowdrops
Helleborus sp/Hellebore
Eranthis hyemalis/Winter Aconite buds
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Old Copper'/
Hybrid Witchhazel
Jasminum nudiflorum/Winter Jasmine
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Feuerzauber'/Hybrid Witchhazel
New path down to the Fruit Vault
Fruit Vault or Root Cellar
Stone chair (KSS)
Snowdrops below Latchford Hall
The Picture Bug below Latchford Hall
Naturalized Crocus sp
Stream from the Springhouse
Stream under the bridge on its way to join Rocky Run
Maclura pomifera/Osage Orange felled in 1954 by a hurricane
A couple Symplocarpus foetidus/
Eastern Skunk Cabbage "flowers"
On the left you see the spathe surrounding the knob-like spadix
Listen to the frogs at the pond:
Lucille's Edible Garden has some Asian greens growing,
like Brassica rapa/Tatsoi or Tat Choy 
Cones of the Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon'/ Japanese Cedar
Hmm, the cistern of the Cistern Garden
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Spanish Spider'/Hybrid Witchhazel
Slate walkway
Painter Legacy Tree Cedrus libani/
Cedar of Lebanon, a PA Champion Tree
Cryptomeria japonica 'Yoshino'/Japanese Cedar
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Twilight'/Hybrid Witchhazel
Hamamelis vernalis 'New Year Gold'/Vernal Witchhazel
Chinonanthus praecox/Wintersweet

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