http://blogs.wttw.com/unphiltered/2012/04/16/a-blogwood-tree/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-blogwood-tree Some personal insights that come directly from Phil Ponce to you Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://blogs.wttw.com/unphiltered/2012/04/16/a-blogwood-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-19335 Jean SmilingCoyote Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:33:38 +0000 http://blogs.wttw.com/unphiltered/?p=2182#comment-19335 Earlier this spring, I saw a great many trees, on the far north side of Chicago, and Evanston, covered in beautiful white flowers. I’d never seen this display. The flowers reminded me of crab apples, but the trees’ growth habit was different. I looked at a tree on my block now that its leaves are out, and have my best guess: hawthorne. Since hawthornes & crab apples are both in the Rose Family, the flowers are similar.

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