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Our mature maples are responding fast to springtime, in the last week or so they have come into flower and now it's raining flowers as the leaf buds push them off.
My dogs love to eat the flowers, they go grazing like cows, must be the maple flavor.
Another two or three weeks we will have a beautiful full canopy of new leaves, great for natural shade on hot sunny days