The kousa dogwood (
Cornus kousa) at the end of Charter Oak Court is now in full glorious bloom. For how this very tree looked last September at the height of its fruiting, see
this post.
A closer look at the kousa flowers. These two pictures of the kousa were taken in the evening of May 6, 2010.
At the southeastern corner of Temporary Road park, where the service road intersects North Shore Drive, is a group of shrubs with showy five-petaled pink flowers, as shown in this photo from April 25, 2010. The compound leaves with usually 7 small leaflets suggest that this is a rose. Note also that the stems are extremely thorny. I believe this may be a rugosa rose (
Rosa rugosa, see this
Virginia Tech fact sheet and the
Missouri description).
The tulip trees (
Liriodendron tulipifera) are now in full bloom, as here on May 7, 2010, in the Ivy Square townhouse development.
And the eastern white pines (
Pinus strobus) are finally developing their male strobili. Compare this image taken May 7, 2010, in the Ivy Square townhouse development with
this post from exactly two weeks previously.
