Pinus palustris SEO for the fragrant white flowers

for the fragrant white flowers

Prunus angustifolia

along a path edge

Each spent flower leaves behind a shining

and avoid low frost pockets that can nip the early flowers

Pinus palustris SEO for the fragrant white flowersBefore the South was farms and pavement it was, in great part, longleaf: an open, sunlit forest of widely spaced pines over a ground layer so rich a single square yard could hold dozens of species, the whole thing held together by fire. They ran across tens of millions of acres of the coastal plain, by some counts as many as ninety million, from Virginia to east Texas, and almost all of it is gone now, which is the quiet grief behind every longleaf