March 2013 -- Attack of the maples

The flower clusters are only an inch or two long, but they are so many that they boggle the mind, and they all came out in the last few days

The clusters have elegant leaf hats designed by Dr. Seuss

California Hazlenut. The leaflet is 1/4" long.

Yet one more deserving Camellia

Magnolia soulangiana

Magnolia stellata...

... which comes in white too.