There are many flowering shrubs and trees either in bloom or just beginning to bloom right now around Southwest Florida.

Besides, spring blooming trees add unmatched beauty to your backyard with their yellow, white, blue, red, or purple flowers.

It’s as if the sun, which is suddenly more visible in the sky, has an ally in the color of so many spring blooms.

They are a small broad crowned tree which will grow to 20 feet in height with a 15- to 20-foot spread. The flowers come in yellow, pink or white. They lose their leaves in the fall although there ...