A seasonal GIF file …
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Seeing the dangling flowers of the perennial Bleeding Heart (Dicentra) plant gave me a shock when I first saw them growing in the yard of an elderly neighbor as a child. ‘What is this, what strange magic … tiny heart pouches hanging out on a clothes line’.
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Each bud seems to yield two leaves. In this hybrid japanese maple specimen the flowers emerge and drop just as the pairs of leave emerge and unfold. Zooming in on the development of the samaras (‘helicopter’ seed/fruits) might make another nice animation, with showing them spiraling down …
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