Spring flowers are making more of an appearance all of a sudden and we are accelerating towards the tipping point of the big green up. The Arboretum's Longenecker gardens have shrubs and trees with flower schedules that span from now until June. The latest to open up are these witch hazels (
Hamamelis family), sending forth orange bursts from a greyish pods that look red when opened up.
Virginiana, the species native to Wisconsin's forests is one of the latest blooming plants, usually flowering in late September-October, but the cultivars found in the Arboretum are winter bloomers. Hundreds of crabapples and lilacs are getting ready to start the main act of spring flowers, while ephemeral flowers in the woods are likely to pop through the leaf litter soon now that the soil is a little moister.
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