Spring Highlights

• Helicopter seeds of silver and/or red maple
• Long, drooping spikes of tiny white blooms of lizard’s-tail

Summer Highlights

• Shimmering silver maple leaves, dark green above and silvery underneath
• Long, drooping spikes of tiny white blooms of lizard’s-tail

Autumn Highlights

• Changing leaf colors: maples can be dramatic

Winter Highlights

• With leaves gone, tree architecture and bark are more apparent: for example, the deeply furrowed bark of black willow
• Sun casts shadows that make the swamp’s hollows and mounds more apparent