Spring About

It's Dove-tree (Davidia involucrata) and wisteria bloom-time here in the Pacific Northwest.  Hurray!  The distinctive display of the former has been a seasonal signal I have attended to for a good while now, having located specimens in at least three locations within reach of downtown.

That is a sign that we are genuinely into Spring, i.e., well past the first crocus and skunk-cabbage signals I forage for aggressively even as early as late February.  By now, most of the narcissus have faded and the tulips are also on the way out.  Alas, our Burkwood's viburnum, a personal favorite, is also done and I barely had a chance to swoon over scent.  Plenty of early Azaleas are exuberant, many wonderfully scented.  Lilacs are going strong.

I think we are a week or two ahead of schedule, though I do not have hard data to support that claim.