My redbud tree made seeds this year. I think it’s the first time it’s done that. This may not be as exciting to other people as it is to me, but it’s a sign that the tree is maturing. I planted this tree as a sapling, and now here it is making seedpods. My little tree is growing up.
Here is what I love about my ‘Forest Pansy’ redbud:
It has purple leaves. The leaves are shaped like hearts. It’s covered with flowers in the spring. The smaller twigs grow in a zig-zag shape. It makes a roof over the sidewalk approaching my house. It makes purple seedpods! Yay redbud!
I think I took almost a full minute to decide if the caption of my picture should end with a period or a question mark:
I wonder if you can eat them.
I wonder if you can eat them?
The period seems more grammatically correct, but the question mark seems to convey my meaning more accurately.
I need to send you a photo of two plants from the CDC and you can tell me if one is a redbud.
I would have fixed your grammar issue with a dash – my favorite punctuation mark. I’m sure I’ve never used it correctly, but – who cares?
How long have you worked for the Center for Disease Control, Lauren, and why do they have mysterious plant species there?
I’m so happy for you!! (I always sing this when I’m happy…so I’m singing now in my office–This goes out to you!)
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How about this little ditty (ahem):
“I wonder if you can eat them,
The pods from the redbud tree.
Their leaves and flowers and zig-zag shape
Makes one happy as one could be.
“When they mature it brings a tear
To the eye of the beholder,
But narrative or interrogative
– Or dash! – that’s even bolder!”
(I know…hold onto the Hallmark application a while longer, right?)
It’s a period. If it had a question mark,it would be a question,and asking someone “I wonder if you can eat them?” is very weird.
It’s also a statement that you wonder.