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Spring flowers on Pawlonia Tree, Wheeler Hill Pass 2018-05-11 - Wheeler Hill Pass, Burkesville Road, near Antioch suburb of Sparksville, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com. The Pawlonia Trees in South Central Kentucky are in bloom now. They dominate some roadsides, particularly along the one mile stretch south of the Green River Bridge on the Heartland Parkway/KY 55 in Taylor County, KY at this time. This one, above, is from a photo simply for the record taken Thursday, May 10, 2018 near the Antioch Neighborhood of Greater Sparksville, KY. We pay homage to the tree because the lavender of the blooms were the favorite color of a great beautiful woman, the late Addie Turner Leftwich, who loved local travels, and particularly enjoyed a drive from Bellview in Metcalfe County to Glasgow along the old KY 80/Glasgow Road, where the trees at this time of year provided the main topic of conversation. Today, many see the trees as invasive, but, according to the entry in Wikipedia, Paulownia one variety of the tree, Paulownia Tormentosa once occurred naturally in North America. Its wood has many uses. - EW Permalink | Comments?

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