Saturday, 8:00 AM. 54 degrees, wind W, calm to moderate. The channel is slightly wrinkled, the sky is blue and the barometer predicts rain, which we got a trace of in a blustery half-hour last evening.
It is a fine day for the Historical Society's annual plant sale in Fountain Garden Park, and volunteers and customers are appearing already.
The European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, on the south side of the house is blooming. They are called “ash” trees because of their ash-like compound leaves, but are not related to the ash genus (Fraxinus). The European species is more often planted than the native S. americana because it is more tree-like and adaptable, but the native species is beautiful and useful as well, it is native to the Boreal Forest and its fringes, and has red berries rather than orange. There are many hybrids and cultivars of both trees. They all tend to be rather short-lived and each has some problems, but the northern landscape is hardly complete without them.
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