Of our trees, the little Carolina Hawthorne budded out first. The leaves start off with a reddish cast and later turn bright green.
The sycamores and other trees are standing free now that we've removed their stakes.
This chinquapin oak, which we feared would die after last spring's hail damage, seems to be doing fine.
Mom and Dad, we've found a new place for you to live in our development. Streetman is building row houses along Berkman, the main north-south artery through the neighborhood. They'll be right on the future streetcar line and across what will hopefully be a small corner market at the base of the tower. The downstairs plans are open enough to serve as a photo studio, and some will have a separate entrance for an office.
The future of the tower is still in limbo. The developer has said that stabilization will come first, followed by restoration of the exterior. Let's hope the new barbed wire fence is at least somewhat effective at deterring further vandalism.
Elsewhere, the Parade of Homes is progressing towards its May deadline. On the left is the Barley & Pfeiffer house, on the right our favorite, designed by Michael Hsu.
4 comments:
Great pictures!
For the sake of clarity and because I know you guys like to know about this stuff, I'm going to sugesst that your Carolina Hawthorne is more commonly called a Carolina Jessamine, which, in turn, is moree commonly called a Yellow Jasmine.
Hawthornes are mostly shrubs and shrubby trees.
Dad and I voted that if you an Timothy want to buy us a house and support us in the style we are not accoustomed to....we would rather have a regular house not a row house.
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Elizabeth's Mom
Dusty,
Sorry for the perhaps unclear captioning. I figured "spring is here" was enough text for the jasmine. The Carolina Hawthorne is referring to the tree in the image below. I believe it's the same type of tree as the Camacho street tree. Have I identified it correctly? It was my best guess based on a Texas trees book.
Thanks!
Ah-Hah! As I was reading your post in Google Reader, it did move the captioning to the right of the picture above the caption.
Your tree is a Monterrey Oak, or Mexican White Oak, which is an amazing tree, but it will get huge and you may wish to move/remove it before it grows into your home.
Many of us DW's will have this choice to make as massive tree species with 40-60' spreads were plant 5-7 feet from our homes.
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