Arboretum Paths: Mississippi’s native blooms – the show is beginning! - Picayune Item

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Arboretum Paths: Mississippi’s native blooms – the show is beginning! - Picayune Item

By Pat Drackett The Crosby Arboretum/MSU Extension Service Have you seen the strands of gold that are woven into the roadside thickets and scrambling up the trunks of pine trees?  Such a treasure can be found amongst the field grasses across Ridge Road from the Arboretum’s service entrance.  Yes, the yellow flowers of Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) are just beginning to fall.  I spotted a single bloom in the middle of a pathway Satu…