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Father Pitt will not claim that this is the earliest daylily in Pittsburgh. But it blooms about this time every year, as the tulips and trilliums are fading, and when very few other daylilies are to be seen. Most daylilies bloom in June and afterward. This one was an unnamed hybrid seedling planted many years ago; it has since formed a big clump.
A slightly later bloomer than the common dooryard lilac, the compact Korean Lilac (Syringa pubescens subsp. patula) is also more intensely scented.
The potato bug was encouraged to remain to provide a sense of scale.
It will take quite a while to pick up everything that came down when the wall of wind hit us on April 29. Here are a few large trees that came down near Saw Mill Run along the Seldom Seen Greenway.
The Great White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) is a trinity of trinities: three petals, three sepals, and three leaves. In its pure white form it seems a perfect emblem of Easter.