... than the ubiquitous banana. Menahan leads me to the conservatory's displays of wild banana plants to explain their weird floral architecture. From a single, pendent stalk, pollinated female flowers are forming the familiar bunches of bananas, but ...
Visitors to Central Park's Conservatory Garden pass a flowering rhododendron, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in New York. Crocuses, cherry trees, magnolia trees are blooming several weeks early because of an unusually warm February.
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It was an exciting time at the start of the month when you got the Christmas decorations down from the loft and went shopping for your new tree. Alas, now the festive season is almost over, and soon it will be time to take the lights, tinsel and baubles down.