Spring has arrived ! There is a lot of activity outdoors to indicate that we are not the only ones happy to see spring. Now is the time to begin to watch for budburst on trees and shrubs. The photo is of buds of a red maple (Acer rubrum). Flower budburst for a red maple occurs in the spring before leaf budburst. Not only is it fun to observe when budburst occurs but to determine whether the red maple has produced all male flowers, all female flowers, or some of both. Male flo