Great banner! One of my favorite flowering trees! I am just a little to far south for them to thrive. I planted one 3 yrs ago and it is just not happy here. I get a few flowers twice a year (Nov and March) but never a full coverage and leaves look bad most of the time.
Scott - they only bloom once a year in this area. The leaves can certainly get bad unless the tree is sprayed (but never sprayed at bloom time). So many things like to nibble on them. Like those dang canker worms. But then, they eat everything.
"The chimera is a one time happenstance event where the plant has a senior moment and forgets what it is doing." - Paul Black
Cool banner, Leslie. Was traveling back to AR from FL and missed it yesterday. We have a tulip tree in FL but our blooms aren't as beautiful and bountiful as yours.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
for the acorns and thumbs.
