Empress tree blooming in October will it bloom in spring?

Question

It invites many kinds of leaf eaters and looking horrible.

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Answer 1

Has it bloomed before or is this its first time? Environmental happenings can cause a tree to bloom out of sync, such as a late freeze, early fall, or if the tree is stressed from drought, for example, causing it to go dormant. When conditions normalize in fall, it may come out of dormancy and bloom. When this happens, it doesn't usually expend all its blooms and should bloom again in spring.