The heath is home to the most amazing selection of trees. You have already seen a number of them on this blog and I am sure will see many more. although, I am ashamed to say, that I do not know what most of them are…. This beauty, with a crow perched on its topmost …
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Beautiful – but dangerous…
Yes, those horse chestnuts are beautiful but – for those who suffer from pollen allergies, as Jacquie pointed out in a comment, they are lethal…. Normally it is male plants that are particularly dangerous for pollen sufferers. But horse chestnuts have perfect flowers, which mean that they are both male and female – so are …
Blossom explosion
I am quite sure that, when I walked down to the heath yesterday, this chestnut tree was not in flower – and now look at it!! I swear that they have all come out within the last 24 hours… And look how stunning they are….. And just down the bottom of that meadow, the blackthorn …
We are on Insta……
I was telling my daughter in law about this blog last night during our Sunday supper Zoom chat – and she said: ‘Are you on Instagram?’ ‘Errr… no! Should we be?” ‘Of course,’ she said ‘Why would you not be? If you are creating all these lovely blogs to cheer people up during lock down, …