Jenkins Arboretum, Devon, Pennsylvania, legacy of H. Lawrence and Elisabeth Philippe Jenkins. 

 

Mt. Cuba Center, Hockessin, Delaware, legacy of the Lammot du Pont Copelands

 

 

A few of the trees and plants – native to the Appalachian Piedmont – which are in flower in the first two weeks of May.

 

 

 

The redbud begins to flower along bough and trunk  (‘caulifory’) in April.  By the second week of May its flowers have fallen and it is in full heart-shaped leaf in metropolitan Philadelphia.

 

Photo taken on the High Line, Lower Manhattan, on May 16, 2022 where it was, of course, still in flower.  Native flora have been planted the length of the High Line.

 

 

High Line, NY on May 16, 2022

 

 

 

The flowers of a native dogwood (Cornus florida) were in bloom this year until the middle of May

 

 

 

 

A greenway through the naturalized gardens at Mt. Cuba Center

 

 

 

Native deciduous azalea

 

 

 

She said ‘Yes!’ sitting on a bench surrounded by native azalea at the Jenkins Arboretum. 

You wonder:  and now?

Then you remind yourself that there is no need for cynicism.  Not here, not here…..

 

 

 

Photo from the website of Mt. Cuba Center

Photo from the net

Devilwood, Wild Olive (Cartrema americanum)

 

 

 

Drooping leucothoe (Leucothoe fontanesiana)

 

 

 

Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia)

 

 

The gardens at the Jenkins Arboretum slope down a wooded hill to a lake at the bottom. 

Among many varieties of native trees and plants, the Arboretum has a celebrated collection of native and non-native azaleas and rhododendrons.

 

 

 

 

Carolina Allspice (Calycanthus floridus). Fragrant leaves.

 

 

 

Purple and white Florida anise (Illicium floridanum). Fragrant, evergreen foliage

 

 

 

2 of 4 bodies of water of different sizes at Mt. Cuba Center

 

 

 

May Apple beneath its double leaf and before the fruit has formed

 

 

 

Longwood purple American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens). 

I am unclear if the flower is scented

 

 

 

Large flower two-wing silver bell (Halesia diptera)

 

 

 

Fothergilla (Fothergilla Gardenii), native, fragrant and without petals

 

 

 

Verdant leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata) 

  

 

Immature flower of Bottlebrush buckeye (?)

 

 

 

American fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus). Fragrant.

Light enveloping sweetest fragrance.