Two runners today, debutant ‘Populus’ who leads in this video, and Runninman who steps up to a mile. 5.10 @newcastleraces RUNNINMAN ridden by Tom Eaves. 5.30 @wolvesraces POPULUS ridden by Joanna Mason. Good luck to connections 🍀 | Ann Duffield Racing

Seeing “snow” flurries at Wetlands Park? For just a few weeks each spring, the Fremont Cottonwoods release their cottony seeds. You may even start seeing drifts of white on the trails, especially in the Cottonwood Grove. Cottonwood trees are dimorphic – only the female trees have the kind of catkins, or hanging flower clusters, that release seeds. | Clark County Wetlands Park

Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides), Poplar (P. deltoides and fremontii), Cottonwood (P. trichocarpa and hyb.) and various Willow species (Salix spp.) are all members of the Populus genus in the Salicaeae, or Willow, family, with 56 genera and about 1,225 species in all.🌿 The quaking aspens are fast-growing, short-lived, upright, branching, open, deciduous trees that typically grow in colonies of identical trees that may live thousands of years. Their clone offspring form new trunks that sprout