chinaberry flowerfall

The chinaberry in our backyard is the messiest tree ever. The flowers fall and cover the ground each spring, the leaves fall in the fall, and the rotten, fermented berries fall every winter. This tree takes three times the rakin'.

But while it's in bloom it attracts droves of butterflies, and then the flowers fall like snow and softly carpet the ground, and it provides good shade all summer, and migrating birds forage on the berries all winter.