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Focus on Smoke Bushes
My recent request to friends for photos and statements about favorite trees brought this wonderfully welcome response from Barbara Hubschman Gold. Her comments are in italics below. I drew a smoke bush at a young age and since wasn’t sure whether it was real or a product of childhood imagination. It was enchanting and dearly…
Captivated by a Silk Tree in Arnold Arboretum
Entering the Arnold Arboretum in early July, I was prepared to focus on all the greenness after months of successive blooming phases: i.e., Forsythia to Lilac to Dogwood. Then surprising sprays of ivory and rosy lavenders drew me toward a distant tree I didn’t recognize. Through one small metal label on the trunk, a plant…
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