Quote Originally Posted by smokey the elder View Post
What are the shapes of the pods? Are they long and narrow? If so they're catalpas. My grandmother had some of those in her yard. Maples shed millions of these little "keys" both in the fall and spring.
I finally have crocuses over the last 10 days or so; forsythia is VERY late this year; just starting to bloom. Can just start seeing red tree buds.
They are, and my sister immediately identified them as such the first time she was here! I will have to watch them this spring, they bear no resemblance to the 3+ foot thick trunked catalpa we had across the street from us when we were kids. I always loved their blossom, thought if the coloring was on the outside is would make a perfect elegant ball gown with massively ruffled hem!