Have you noticed that lovely scent in the air as you drive up Five Forks Drive?  It is the Black Locust trees blooming.  

Look up and you can see clusters of white pea-like flowers.  

 

Robinia pseudo-acacia, another botanical name I remember from Horticulture school. Black Locust, commonly.

 

Some people see the trees as great big weeds, because new trees grow up right from the roots, creating forests

of thorny, tough wood trees.  But they have big value.  They are so tough they are used for fence posts, because the wood

is strong, and holds up in the soil.  And they perfume the air this time of year.  
 

Thought you'd like to know what to call that beautiful smell:  Black Locust in bloom.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!