Spring Highlights

• Purple-pink blooms of eastern redbud
• Tiny bright yellow blooms of northern spicebush
• New spring leaves on trees—green, pinkish, or bronze

Summer Highlights

• Yellow blooms of waist-high wingstem
• White blooms of knee-high white snakeroot

Autumn Highlights

• Dangling purple fruits of blackhaw
• Red berries of northern spicebush
• Migrating birds feasting on blackhaw and northern spicebush fruits
• Seedpods similar to dried brown peapods, hanging from branches of eastern redbud
• Falling black walnuts, in greenish husks
• Changing leaf colors

Winter Highlights

• Beauty of leafless oaks, hickories, and black walnuts
• Evergreen eastern red-cedars