Outdoors: Which comes first — leaf or blossom?

When not fly fishing for trout on our heavily stocked Worcester County streams, listening to the building chorus of thrilling bird song, or observing wild turkeys preposterously flaunting feathers this spring, I’ve been focusing more than ever on my gardens and the plants surrounding them. We can learn volumes in our own backyards if we look at them closely enough.Have you ever noticed that some plants leaf out first while others blossom first? The two strategies for survival […]