Let’s see your pictures of spring.

[Mark J]

On 23/04/2025 at 23:34, AHPP said:

 

Did you get a picture by any chance?

Afraid not.

[Mick Dempsey]

Wisteria doing it’s thing. 
Alive with big blue/black carpenter bees. 
Too fast to catch with a iPhone for the moment. 

[tree-fancier123]

they take a while to get big

[Stubby]

3 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

they take a while to get big

Wingnut ?

[tree-fancier123]

35 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Wingnut ?

It's not somewhere I work, so haven't been right up to it, but that bright yellow is usually laburnum, quite a size for one of those. People with holiday lets and or kids around worry about them, as injestion of leaves and seed known to cause vomiting and even paralysis

[sime42]

That's a Laburnum I'm sure. Lovely.

[sime42]

Is it just me or is it a good year for Hawthorne?

 

Driving across Somerset on the M5 this evening it was just a sea of white, and a little pink, blossom. Stunning. (Shame about the smell though)

 

 

[Stubby]

7 hours ago, sime42 said:

Is it just me or is it a good year for Hawthorne?

 

Driving across Somerset on the M5 this evening it was just a sea of white, and a little pink, blossom. Stunning. (Shame about the smell though)

 

 

Yes . Some of the hedge rows here are a mixture of hawthorn and black thorn . The blackthorn flowered a couple of weeks ago . thats all dropped off with a good crop of slows showing and now the hawthorn has flowered . 

[difflock]

The smell from the just flowering hawthorn walking out our lane in the morning, while the dew is still on the grass, or of any random evening, is quite sublime. 

Though a few Oak seedlings in pots seem to have had their tender leaves nipped by the couple of mornings of tight hoar frost this past week.

The weather here in N I. Since March, has been shocking fine and dry and sunny.

Today there is not a cloud in the sky, and a warm wind from the South.

Other years, mid May, it could be perishing cold , wet and miserable.

With a proper bastard  lazy wind.

Edited Saturday at 12:41 by difflock

[sime42]

On 10/05/2025 at 13:39, difflock said:

The smell from the just flowering hawthorn walking out our lane in the morning, while the dew is still on the grass, or of any random evening, is quite sublime. 

Though a few Oak seedlings in pots seem to have had their tender leaves nipped by the couple of mornings of tight hoar frost this past week.

The weather here in N I. Since March, has been shocking fine and dry and sunny.

Today there is not a cloud in the sky, and a warm wind from the South.

Other years, mid May, it could be perishing cold , wet and miserable.

With a proper bastard  lazy wind.

 

 

Do you not get even a faint whiff of something unpleasant from Hawthorne blossom, a bit fishy maybe? Perhaps it's just another of those subjective smells, there's quite a few. Though I'm not alone; a group of us out recently, and only my sister in-law didn't agree to some extent. I think the off smell might be more prominent in strong sunlight.

 

It's be great, but I think we'll pay the price for this very shockingly fine and dry weather sooner or later. It's going to come keen if we don't get a considerable amount of rain pretty soon.