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Want more birds and butterflies in your yard? This a shady tree that can bring color, fragrance, and wildlife to your yard, creating a peaceful outdoor escape.
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Bare trees sprouting green leaves, the sun warming and shining on the damp earth, and hundreds of flowers poking upward are part of the dawn of spring.
It’s nice to look around outside and once again see green instead of brown. The green is a combination of trees putting out leaves and others covered with flower buds. If you have a good tree ...
Redbud, dogwood, and sassafras trees are now in bloom, while early butterfly species like cabbage whites and tiger swallowtails have begun to appear.
Spring allergy season, triggered by tree pollen, is underway in Michigan and across the U.S. Common allergy triggers in Michigan include trees like ash, oak, and hickory, as well as certain ...
"The migration times of birds, when butterflies start flying in the spring, when plants flower, when trees leaf out ... these are all part of phenology," says Richard Primack, a professor of plant ...
The tree supports many species of butterflies and bees each spring. After the flowers, it sprouts heart-shaped leaves.