Brilliance
Redbuds Radiate
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BY MARY ELLEN CONNELLY | PHOTOS BY MARY ELLEN CONNELLY
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Tiny leaves follow the flowers
ompared to a prairie it was foreign territory. I once hiked there, dodging colonies of red trillium along a babbling brook that tumbled from an Appalachian mountain. If a few days earlier, it would have been bare above and bare below, but spring had arrived in Virginia, and while the higherup hardwoods were still naked, two native understory trees, redbud and flowering dogwood, were surprisingly heavy with flower. Their brilliant fuchsia buds and glowing white scallops sprinkled the gray hillsides over hundreds of square miles. Soon after that colorful spring near the eastern coast three decades ago, the same fuchsia glow of eastern redbud (Cercis Canadensis), albeit scant, surprised me in Sioux Falls, and, as Willa Cather wrote about rare trees in My Antonia, “…we visited them like they were people.” (Others rare trees Sioux Falls tree aficionados seek out include ginkgo, sassafras, beech, hickory, tulip tree, and red oak).
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