Like snow in the sky:
Not cold, though.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 April 2010.
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Dogwoods blooming
Big white flowers of Cornus florida:
Like snow in the sky:
Not cold, though.
Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 2 April 2010.
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WE now enter a very remarkable grove of Dog wood trees (Cornus Florida) which continued nine or ten miles unalterable, except here and there a towering Magnolia grandiflora; the land on which they stand is an exact level; the surface a shallow, loose, black mould, on a stratum of stiff, yellowish clay; these trees were about twelve feet high, spreading horizontally; their limbs meeting and interlocking with each other, formed one vast, shady, cool grove, so dense and humid as to exclude the sun-beams and prevent the intrusion of almost every other vegetable, affording us a most desirable shelter from the fervid fun-beams at noon-day. This admirable grove by way of eminence has acquired the name of the Dog woods.
–William Bartram, 1773