Spring Highlights

• New spring growth: emerging leaves of American sycamore, shoots of American water-willow
• Catkins of river birch, dispersing pollen

Summer Highlights

• Large pink or white blooms of halberd-leaf rosemallow
• Small white blooms of American water-willow
• White one-inch, globe-like blooms of common buttonbush
• Pollinators such as bees, dragonflies, and butterflies attracted by the flowers

Autumn Highlights

• White blooms of late-flowering thoroughwort and American water-willow
• Large pink or white blooms of halberd-leaf rosemallow
• Purplish blue blooms of blue mistflower, attractive to butterflies
• Yellow leaves of river birch
• Brown sycamore leaves—larger than your hand—littering the ground
• Sycamore seedballs—one-inch fuzzy brown balls that break into many small seeds with tufts that help them disperse in the wind

Winter Highlights

• Interesting tree architecture and bark patterns—for example, the mosaic-like pattern of sycamore bark near the ground, which becomes bone-white nearer the top of the tree
• Sycamore seedballs still clinging to their trees