A protest against making the redbud the state's official tree touched off a skirmish among club women and sent Oklahomans scurrying to their dictionaries, encyclopedias and Bibles in 1937. They wanted ...
Claim to fame: It’s hard to miss the colorful purple patches that redbuds add to Ozarks woodland areas in early spring. The early blooming of this tree gives it a special charm because it begins ...
Credit for the famous “Oklahoma Redbud War” of the 1930s goes to Marmie Lee Browne, an Oklahoma City resident who wrote a persuasive letter to then Gov. E. W. Marland suggesting the Eastern Redbud ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. One of the first trees to bloom in ...
The choice of the mistletoe for our state flower never has been popular with some of our citizens. Former University of Oklahoma President George L.Cross, a botanist, was among those who did not think ...
Growing up in Virginia, one of my favorite spring sights was the blooming of eastern redbud trees, Cercis canadensis. Redbud trees are one of the earliest spring bloomers. Their abundant pea-sized ...
Redbuds in bloom are a most welcome harbinger of spring. Their dense clusters of magenta flowers bloom early, providing splashes of color against a winter landscape of browns and grays. Is the name ...
Today we will be discussing one of the most delightful and useful trees in the Piedmont landscape – the charming redbud. I pay a lot of attention to the names of plants and how plant names originated.
Redbuds in bloom are a most welcome harbinger of spring. Their dense clusters of magenta flowers bloom early, providing splashes of color against a winter landscape of browns and grays. Is the name ...
As I strolled around the yard yesterday, I noticed that buds were beginning to swell on most of our trees. This is a sign that spring is around the corner, and soon I will see the dogwoods and redbuds ...
Just after cockcrow on the Friday of the Crucifixion, the betrayer of Jesus Christ learned that the Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate. Unhappy Judas ...
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