Beautiful! This has been one of the best years in memory for Texas mountain laurels. But what kind of tree is in the first photo? Are those flowers or fresh leaves; or both?

Beautiful! My TML hardly blooms at all. I guess its because I'm at the northern edge of its region (or so I'm told). It gets buds every fall, but the winter seems to kill them off. That's too bad because I really love the smell of them!

The TMLs on my place have all been blooming like crazy! I have a lot of those plants and this is very unusual...some are small and would not normally bloom at that size! We've never had such a huge TML bloom! Not sure why it happened this way.

roselee the green are leaves the white is flowers. I had never heard of it and took a chance. Currently they are in full sun but it seems they can go either sun or shade but get better blooms in more sun.

Lynn, I'm in the Dallas area and included it because the nursery hasn't had any bloom yet either. I use compost and pecan shell mulch on everything. My redbuds all bloomed very early as well.

Tjayars, now I see the name of the tree right under the picture, but I was so fascinated by the tree itself didn't notice you had already named it. At least that's gonna' be my excuse ... :-)

Thanks for introducing me to Texas and Chinese Fringe tree . I don't remember ever knowing about it before. It's just beautiful.

You are welcome. After driving an hour and a half saturday for a tree, you can imagine I probably have a few more things that are unusual. We built a new house and have done all the landscaping. No builder stock trees, shrubs, or bushes.