In upstate New York, we have actually two long seasons, summer and winter. The spring and fall are very short and very precious!! However, the spring is always so pleasant. First the pear tree blooms ( I missed the time to take the picture, now have to wait till next year…) then the crabapple, apple, and dogwood.
This is the dogwood tree 火星人 planted. The soil in our yard is clay, very hard and full of gravels and stones, it was very difficult to dig the hole for it. The first dogwood species we picked was light-pink-flowered “Rutgers” hybrid, yet it did not survive within an year. The nursery did not have the same species in stock, so we had to replace it with a “Cherokee Brave” which has a darker, maroon-ish flower as in the above picture.
