‘Tis a strange time of year for trees. August creates a big strain on them as they progress onto autumn.
Some still produce flowers, like the lime or linden tree with its yellow fluffy stars, or the stag’s horn sumac with its bright red candles.
Others produce fruit, nuts or seeds, as I’ve shown in previous posts.
But the worst is our poor horse chestnuts. They suffer from a horrible virus that makes their leaves turn brown before their time.
This phenomenon is so short lived I have to capture it before it is gone.
Our ornamental horse chestnut tree has new leaves that are this amazing coral pink.
It doesn’t last long before they transform back into ordinary green horse chestnut leaves to resemble any smaller version of the conker tree.
Spring is definitely here in earnest, and is rushing through at breakneck speed. I feel if I don’t keep alert, it will all pass me by before I have a chance to properly acknowledge it!
We have an ornamental horse chestnut tree in our garden. It doesn’t grow very high, and its leaves break out in this amazing orange, and then progress to maturity through pink to green.
This is in contrast to the ordinary horse chestnut tree which begins and ends as green, but no so for the sycamore, which reveals a similar orange before turning green.
Amongst all the bare branches, one tree is deciding to be different.
Back in 15 February I reported on a horse chestnut tree whose buds were beginning to open. Well, this is what those buds now look like!
They look a little sickly due to a lack of decent sunshine and cold temperatures, but I’m sure they will pull through.
Watching nature while walking 