{"id":2158,"date":"2015-05-10T07:19:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T07:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siteandinsight.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2015-05-10T07:19:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T07:19:35","slug":"following-other-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/following-other-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Other Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again this month I am nowhere near my home in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, so I cannot\u00a0report on my linden, the tree I am officially ‘following.’ But since I hate to miss a month of \u00a0Lucy Corrander’s tree following meme, I am cheating this month and following the trees that I see\u00a0around me as I visit the towns of Emilia-Romagna in italy.<\/p>\n

Trees are blooming everywhere and from the trains between towns I can see\u00a0blurs of white blossoms. In Ferrara, a small city that I like very much, I was able to stop and get close enough for photos of several different trees in bloom. I have nothing special\u00a0to say about these trees, and only invite\u00a0you to admire their blossoms along with me. I wish I could share the scents that perfumed the air — blissful in the extreme — but until someone invents a scent-sharing meme, you’ll simply have to imagine the sweetness.<\/p>\n

Blooming most prolifically were the black locust trees. (That’s not a surprise. As anyone who lives in an area where they grow will know, they seed around so easily that some people consider them weeds.)<\/p>\n

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\"Black<\/a>

Black locust in bloom = heavy perfume.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A close-up of their blossoms\u00a0shows yellow centres in pea-like clusters.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>

The botanical name is Robinia Pseudoacacia, or false acacia.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Blooming along with the locust trees were elders and mock orange, creating a world of\u00a0white. In contrast was the red\u00a0horse chestnut tree in full bloom in the square outside my hotel.<\/p>\n

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\"Who<\/a>

Aesculus x carnea is a hybrid between A. pavia (red buckeye) and A. hippocastanum (horse-chestnut). \u00a0This may be the most common cultivar ‘Briotii.’<\/p><\/div>\n

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Do the colours attract the bees or is it the perfume? Or is it the combination? Whichever, the bees were loving the tree in the late afternoon sunshine.<\/p>\n

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\"I<\/a>

I wasn’t the only one who liked this blossom.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The shape of this old Paulownia tree in Parco Massari caught my eye, as did the mossy trunk and the strange boll at the base.<\/p>\n

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\"Paulownia<\/a>

Paulownia trees are sometimes called princess trees because they were named after Anna Paulowna, queen consort of The Netherlands and daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Paulownia blossoms showed up well against the green leaves behind them.<\/p>\n

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\"Clearly<\/a>

Clearly someone needs to prune this tree.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A close-up of the blossoms shows tubular blossoms that resemble those of a foxglove. (Is it ever called a foxglove tree?)<\/p>\n

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\"Ferrara<\/a><\/p>\n

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The wisteria for which Italy is so rightly\u00a0known had finished for the year but I did find one lone blossom that remained in a shady spot.<\/p>\n

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\"Ferrara<\/a>

It’s hard to beat purple blossoms against a background of green.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’ll be back in Quebec in June and hope to have something interesting to share about my glorious linden tree. Until then, I’ll enjoy reading about yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again this month I am nowhere near my home in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, so I cannot\u00a0report on my linden, the tree I am officially ‘following.’ But since I hate to miss a month of \u00a0Lucy Corrander’s tree following meme, I am cheating this month and following the trees that I see\u00a0around me…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[429,430,415,431,432,433,434],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plants","category-travel","tag-aesculus","tag-black-locust","tag-following-my-tree","tag-horse-chestnut-tree","tag-paulownia","tag-robinia-pseudoacacia","tag-wisteria","category-21","category-23","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}