Oh glorious flame trees, it is your season once again.
The bursts of orange have broken out across Key West and I caught a fair number of them on United Street.
They are lovely trees and they make a cheerful sight during the summer.
A lot is made of the architecture of Key West, the old homes, the white picket fences and the pitch of the roofs, but without trees none of that would amount to half as much.
The city has an actual tree commission which gives permission to homeowners to cut down trees and is also designed to preserve heritage trees.
Cheyenne found something tasty among the fallen poinciana leaves, the blossoms themselves she ignored, though there are plenty of them drifting down across the rain parched landscape.
An essay on the poinciana trees of Key West is pretty much an annual obligation. My 2009 effort with a more detailed explanation of these trees and their various names is here:
The bursts of orange have broken out across Key West and I caught a fair number of them on United Street.They are lovely trees and they make a cheerful sight during the summer.A lot is made of the architecture of Key West, the old homes, the white picket fences and the pitch of the roofs, but without trees none of that would amount to half as much.The city has an actual tree commission which gives permission to homeowners to cut down trees and is also designed to preserve heritage trees. 
Cheyenne found something tasty among the fallen poinciana leaves, the blossoms themselves she ignored, though there are plenty of them drifting down across the rain parched landscape.
An essay on the poinciana trees of Key West is pretty much an annual obligation. My 2009 effort with a more detailed explanation of these trees and their various names is here:
3 comments:
They are beautiful, if not messy trees. At our new house we have a rather impressive poinciana smack in the middle of the lawn. Like an idiot I trimmed her back late in the season(our horticultural neighbors were aghast as one can imagine), while she is starting to get all her greenery back, I doubt we will have as many flowers this summer. Leason learned.... never wait too long to trim your bush.
I love the little ones behind Winn Dixie, there's a tiny one, but it still blooms!
in the Pacific Islands, they're known as Flame Trees - a much more descriptive name, in my opinion.
Living net door to one,
Chuck on Fleming.
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