Spring flowers are blooming everywhere, and that means that our sister site Flora Pittsburghensis is filling up with more pictures. Here are a few to get you started, and you can see many more over there.
An interesting thing to know about pussy willow is that the cut branches will root in water. Last year old Pa Pitt was given a bouquet of pussy-willow branches, which rooted in the vase. Planted in a big tub, they grew plenty of catkins this year, of which these are a few.