The tree outside our window

Lucy and I decided to contribute the easiest possible tree photos. The tree right outside our window. Actually there's more than one tree in the pic, so you can choose which one to watch.
The trees are on the opposite side of the mill stream, the "Auer Mühlbach" that flows past our house. I'm not actually certain what kind of tree they are, so perhaps, you can all help identify them. I think that the nearest is a black poplar. I'll have to go up closer to the other to see what it is. This photo was taken on 04. April 2008.

April 10: The oak and the chestnut

Here is the oak green again and seemingly unmoved by the snow.

And the leaves on the Wiltshire chestnut continue to swell.

The Wiltshire Chestnut - March 29 to April 8

March 29: This is a chestnut. Amazing tree. About as big as the New Forest Oak but, I imagine, not half as old. Two hundred years maybe, compared to the oak's 5 or 6 hundred. Interesting to see where the forest oak has grazing animals around it, it's branches stop about 5 or 6 feet above the ground. This chestnut however goes right down to the ground.


Here's one of the amazing sticky buds.


April 1: or thereabouts. You can just see the green. Click on the pic to see it large if you don't believe me!


Then the snow came. But look how far the bud has changed.


Now you can see the leaf beneath the snow. And I imagine the thing below the leaf will become a flowering chestnut spike in a week or so


April 8: Yes the green is there. Isn't spring wonderful!

These pictures were taken by Mary. Another Tree Watcher. Email if you would like to join the tree watch and post pics of your tree as it changes.

April 4 - Suddenly there's snow

The New Forest oak. No sign of the green when I photographed it in falling snow this morning. But it's evening now and all the snow has melted. The green will be there all right tomorrow. It will be interesting to see if the snow slows the greening process.


The leaning trees. The snow added more weight and white to the crown. But they are still standing.


And finally a magnolia with snow smothering the twigs and blossoms.

Green, green everywhere

The apple has tiny leaves.

The oak has a halo of green.

The leaning trees are are leafing at the top.

The beech is in almost full leaf. Nothing will stop spring now

Leaning trees New Forest April 1

These trees are leaning heavily as they grow towards the light in a gap in the woods.
When trees lean, they raise their roots up into a mound like this, below the leaning tree.

Then, when they fall, a big circle of earth comes up around the roots. Like this nearby beech tree.

Oaks do not have deep roots, although they start of as acorns with a tap root but these whither in time.

Trees often fall when the extra weight of the leaves grow and tons of water are taken up into the crown of the tree. Even more likely after a wet winter like this one. So they may come down. Or they may live on. They've been leaning for many years and Jeanie's been photographing them for the last 5.

Apple on April fools day

This is an apple tree in a North Hampshire garden, soon to be smothered in leaves and blossom.

These are the buds