In Bloom

There are so many things in bloom right now, it's lovely to take a walk around the neighborhood. Here's what's in bloom in my neighborhood right now:

Trees:
Cherry, Plum, Pear and Apricot trees-Cherries usually have white to pink blossoms with smooth bark (also all of the "weeping" trees are cherries), Plum have purplish pink blooms with dark gray bark and Apricots have white flowers with light gray courser bark, Pears have white blossoms.

Maples-Large trees that look like they are getting light green leaves, these are actually green flowers.

Magnolias-Big white or Pink flowers













(Forsythia)

Shrubs:

Phlox-a little shrub with mounds of very light purple flowers.

Forsythias-Large bush with bright yellow flowers

Flowering Quince-Dark pink bloosoms and spiny branches

(Tulips and Grape Hyanciths)
Bulbs:

Tulips-yellows, reds, pinks and whites.

Daffodils-yellow bulb flowers

Grape Hyanciths-little dark purple clusters of flowers.

Regular Hyanciths-clusters of pink, purple or white flowers

Scillia (Spring Squills)-low growing light purple bulb flowers
(Scillia)















Herbaceous Plants:

Rock Cress-little mounds of purple flowers with four petals each.

Violets-low growing purple flowers

(Tulips and Rock Cress)