Biosentients - Science Biology… etc

Like so much of the rest of North America, Missouri faced a late-season freeze after a mild February and March. Many of the trees brought out their flowers and leaves early, and it turned out to be too early.

The frost-blighted leaves above are still hanging from a pignut hickory tree in the western end of Roundrock. There were examples like this all around. Blighted by the unexpected cold, these overachievers paid a price. (I have a couple of trees in my suburban yard — a gingko and a river birch — that took a hard hit. They are only now starting to bring out some .........