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TOPIC: a favorite sign of Southern App Spring
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/f10fb00be36b87f4?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 14 2008 6:06 am
From: neil



Dear ENTS,

I just want to share a quick email about one of my favorite times of
the year in the southern Appalachian Mountains. The attached pic, a low
quality as it is, is one of my favorite scenes in the southern forest.

The forest is still primarily bare, though the understory is quickly
filling with /Trillium/, violets, cohosh, dogwood, etc., etc. Yet, the
Fraser Magnolia puts out a large, cream-colored flower to signal to us
that, despite snowflakes yesterday, there is no turning back. Spring in
the southern Appalachian Mountains is on!

neil

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Apr 14 2008 8:44 am
From: James Parton


Neil,

Yes, spring is wonderful here in the Southern Appalachians. I went
hiking a little yesterday and noticed green peeking out everywhere.
Mayapple, Trillium and various other plants are greening up the forest
floor. Have you ever seen yellow wild violets? Green River game Lands
has them as well as Pisgah National Forest. Yes, those Fraser Magnolia
are wonderful trees. Flowers in spring. Big beautiful green leaves in
summer turning yellow in fall.

Where do you reside? I am in Hendersonville NC.

James P.