The first official day of spring was more than 10 days ago, but who needs a calendar? This season is heralded by a bursting of blooms.
Get outside – sneak if you must – to see some of the beauty that lasts for just a few weeks. Spring bulbs are like old friends: plant them once and they return each year like clockwork. Whether your home is spiffy and new, or the porch is sagging and the roof leaks, the daffodils march back to herald the end of winter. Just like old friends, you can count on them and they are quite forgiving.
Spectacular weeping cherry trees have nearly wrapped a great show along Euclid Avenue, several in private yards in the blocks between Euclid Avenue Baptist Church and St. Anne Catholic Church. And a terrific swath of daffodils is blooming for perhaps 100 yards along Porterfield Highway in Abingdon. Another stellar patch of white daffodils is blooming now in front of the Bristol Va./Tenn. Chamber of Commerce building at the state line.
You can’t miss the funky, wild-maned forsythia that sprouts in nearly every yard, ditch and wide spot in the road across the region. These blooming bushes are a welcome wagon for spring, dressed in sunny yellow.
But the best tree in Bristol, in our humble opinion, is the Aristocrat pear. Hundreds, if not thousands, are planted throughout the city, in neighborhoods and along roadsides, and they are laden with exquisite white blossoms.
They “pretty up” the electrical substation along Bonham Road, several commercial sites along Airport Road and countless neighborhoods in the city. Look also for their skinnier cousins, the Bradford pears, that are a favorite of the highway department because of their tolerance for vehicle exhaust.
For Aristocrat pears, the big impact, can’t-miss spot is State Street, where these ornamental trees line both sides for about three-tenths of a mile. Take a spin or a stroll down State Street today and see these amazing, regal flowering trees at the height of their beauty.
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