Category: Uncategorized
-
February flowers
There are lots of flowers in the park at the moment – bright yellow patches of crocuses, swathes of purple crocuses, the occasional miniature daffodil, camelias, winter viburnum and forsythia and, I think, some Cornelian cherry. However, these are not the flowers that have roused my interest. Two trees are producing small, red flowers right…
-
January photos
I can’t believe it is nearly the end of January and I’m only just getting round to photographs I took at the start of the year. One of them was of the swamp cypress that I had been watching since early Autumn and by New Year’s day it only had a few leaves left clinging…
-
Ring of blossom
In the Spring of 2022 The National Trust announced a campaign to plant 20 million trees by 2030 in order to help combat climate change. Part of this campaign would involve planting blossom trees, beginning at the new London Blossom Garden. From there it would expand to towns and cities across the country and here,…
-
More storm damage
Storm Franklin caused damage to a small tree near to the path going from the Grange Road entrance to the park, towards the bowling green. It was tree number 507, a mountain ash or Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) The wind damage was evident early in the morning but by about 11 o’ clock the tree had…
Kings Heath Park Trees 