odd

[David oakman]

I was in a small wood today and i found three oak trees in full leaf and the leaves were still green odd the frosts have not made them drop:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Ive noticed quite a few round bucks too, it is odd, they arent really fully green but say 50% never seen them in leaf so late as this!

[armchairarborist]

working in a garden today and the apple tree we pruned earlier in the year was in full leaf too, very odd

[janey]

Hmm, what's going on with the oaks? Something I have noticed locally and then staring out the window on a trip down to the sarf coast is that an unually large percentage of them have kept their leaves. Why haven't they abscised?

 

AT boffins - help me out here

[David oakman]

Two trees are half green but one still looks as it is summer i will try and get a picture tomoz:001_smile:

[armchairarborist]

any chance they could be dead? that would stop the (insert clever sounding word that means leaf drop) if they suddenly died wouldn't it?

[BenR]

some have lost all leaf and some have not based on my observations in Berks... its not just Q.robur though, I have an old lucombe oak on my uni campus that is doing the same. Interesting stuff

[bjam1964]

Same here in parts of Warwickshire - seems strange to see Oaks in leaf so late although most are turning brown. Retention of leaves protects buds during a hard winter I guess?

[nepia]

some have lost all leaf and some have not based on my observations in Berks... its not just Q.robur though, I have an old lucombe oak on my uni campus that is doing the same. Interesting stuff

 

 

Must be Whiteknights... noticed exactly the same with a large oak at Bristol Uni last week; full leaf, healthy looking tree except it should have been September.

[Big J]

Same up here too - some are still half leafed.

 

Also, in a bit of woodland I manage, a lot of the sycamore sprouting from stumps cut this summer are in full leaf.

 

Jonathan