Alders still in leaf?

[Sully]

I work around portsmouth and have noticed quite a few alders with their leaves on. Is this normal, am i being thick?!

[slack ma girdle]

The Italian Alder keeps it leaves alot longer than the common one, and is often used in urban situation. This could be the reason, or something else completely.

[RobRainford]

alders will still have their cones persisting through winter as normal. However, i have noticed a few silver birch with some green leaves still on. they must be taking advantage. Of what i dont know!

[RobArb]

its the same hear, some oaks are still on the verge of green and the alders too. I've even seen some holly thats still green and not shed its leaves yet:blushing:

[APC]

The alders I cut the other day had no leaves, just up the road from Pompey. They were only small though.

[csservices]

its the same hear, some oaks are still on the verge of green and the alders too. I've even seen some holly thats still green and not shed its leaves yet:blushing:

 

I've come across holly with flowers on it still at this time of year when hedgelaying was right in the middle of a big old holly bush must have been sheltered enough that it had stayed in flower

[peckerwoo]

Observed sole varieties of beech, turkey oak, sycamore and even a sweet chestnut that had a few sole leaves on not to mention a few sheltered weeping willows.

An ex-forces metrologist mentioned the peculiar looks amidst the snow scenes recently but I can only put it down to the relatively warmer winters in the last 2 decades on average which has given habitats a longer sense on holding onto their leafs?

will be very interesting to record next autumn the timeframe which deciduous trees lose their leaves?

Is their a tree variant of human self-expectancy that we adere to when we expect somethings going to happen yet act differently when the outcome is not what we first thought or assumed?

,,,,all I need is another ton of questions without answers at this particular time of weather chaos theory