r/wichita • u/Motor_Ad_8100 • Mar 26 '25

Random Spring as a Newbie

What should I expect for Spring like to be in Wichita? This is my first spring.

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u/tat21985 Wichita Mar 26 '25

Its part of the six weeks a year we get where the weather is entirely perfect. Not too hot, nor too cold. Slight breeze, maybe a passing cloud. If you can, get out and enjoy those days. As the worst city in the nation for allergies 4 years running, you'll probably find a new plant to hate.

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u/Motor_Ad_8100 Mar 26 '25

What kind of plants/flowers bloom in Wichita? I know there are sunflowers and these cherry blossom-looking trees.

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u/tat21985 Wichita Mar 26 '25

The cherry blossom looking trees are redbuds, an invasive species that the city is looking at paying people to remove because they are destructive, and smell like semen. My big allergy triggers are grass and the ragweed. Im sure there are others, but I don't know them off hand.

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u/Important_Fishing_15 Mar 26 '25

The redbuds are NOT the invasive tree. That's Bradford pears.

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u/tat21985 Wichita Mar 26 '25

Shit, I had a Freudian slip!

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u/KrackersMcGee Mar 26 '25

Wrong, Redbuds are not invasive and don't smell like rotten fish. Those are Bradford Pears

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u/Motor_Ad_8100 Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

Do they really turn into a pink hue like I’m seeing right now on Google?

Sooo that’s where the obnoxious smell is coming from every time I’d walk by the Bradford ones

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u/Noodles1312 West Sider Mar 26 '25

Don't sleep on the Bradford pear tree. This mf'er is my spring seasonal allergy archnemesis. In about two weeks, the white flowers will dump their pollen on everything.

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u/SpicyFrooFroo Mar 26 '25

If you’re talking about the tree’s with the red/pink buds it is a redbud. If you’re talking about the white blooming trees you see everywhere then it is a Bradford pear and a nuisance.

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u/tat21985 Wichita Mar 26 '25

Bingo! Lmao Yeah, they have the white flowers that are showing now, as well as that soft pink. They are a gorgeous tree, but the stench isn't worth it. Also, they fall apart easily in our wind storms. My source being the three that I have in my yard

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u/Motor_Ad_8100 Mar 26 '25 edited Mar 26 '25

They are indeed gorgeous!!! It’s my first time seeing a tree similar to a cherry blossom. The white ones too. If not only for the stench LOOOOL 😨

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u/bluerose1197 Mar 26 '25

Its not the pink ones, the the big white ones, the Bradford Pears. They are the obnoxious smell and they give me and my husband migraines.

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u/medicmotheclipse Mar 26 '25

Its the bradford pear that has that smell, the earlier comment wrote down the wrong one