Please tell this transplant what the differing flowering trees are!

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Anonymous wrote:You can google image crepe myrtle...they're around here too.

Although these still look like sticks at this point. Will be gorgeous mid-late summer and fall.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, omg 18:13 I love that tree!

They are really coming out now (we have 2). If you are near Bradley blvd in Bethesda, usually many along the wooded road line heading toward Beltway crossover.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget Tulip Trees:

http://jaymoorephotography.com/blog/?p=5929

Aren't these magnolias?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Thundercloud plum. Purple flowers starting to drop and deep plum leaves coming out.

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/prcet1.htm

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OP here. OMG I'm in love. Love love love with DC spring.

Thank you all, PPs and I'll check back periodically (I bookmarked this post) to see if anything else shows up.

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OP again.
Re this Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’ (link to picture at 13:40)
When it leafs out and the leaves are not baby leaves, are they green or that sort of black/ burgundy?

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Anonymous wrote:OP again.
Re this Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’ (link to picture at 13:40)
When it leafs out and the leaves are not baby leaves, are they green or that sort of black/ burgundy?

No, dark purple-y leaves, I think.

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The purple one is the saucer or Chinese magnolia:
http://www.floridata.com/wallpaper/jpg/SaucerMagnolia800.jpg

The white magnolia on usually a bigger/taller tree is the Southern magnolia:
http://www.augustaga.gov/images/pages/N1632/Southern%20magnolia%20-%20photo%201.jpg

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OP, if this is your first spring you picked a particularly pretty one. Maybe it's just because the winter was so long increasing the anticipation, but I think this spring is especially colorful.

[Anonymous]

What's the tree that's been flowering for about a week now, that has big puffy pink pom poms, and the new leaves behind the pom poms are brownish?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the tree that's been flowering for about a week now, that has big puffy pink pom poms, and the new leaves behind the pom poms are brownish?

Crabapples?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if this is your first spring you picked a particularly pretty one. Maybe it's just because the winter was so long increasing the anticipation, but I think this spring is especially colorful.

I think because the winter was so long, a lot of things ended up blooming at the same time rather than at different times, as would have happened if winter ended earlier. Spring has been compressed.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the tree that's been flowering for about a week now, that has big puffy pink pom poms, and the new leaves behind the pom poms are brownish?

Different type of cherry tree?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the tree that's been flowering for about a week now, that has big puffy pink pom poms, and the new leaves behind the pom poms are brownish?

Kwanzan cherry tree.