Kings Heath Park Trees

Kings Heath Park Trees

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  • Spring blossom

    When people come in to the park they don’t need to told where to look for trees, or blossom trees in particular. Just keep walking, and you’ll find them. If you are a frequent visitor to the park no doubt you know where to look and can get straight to where you desire. Nevertheless, I…

    Spring blossom

    Brian Holmes

    Mar 13, 2023
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    blossom, flowers, Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, Spring, Trees
  • Scent to greet us

    Over the past few weeks my wife and I have been met with a particular scent as we came round the corner, by the bowling green, towards the Thrive pavilion. I was stumped as to where it was coming from but it was rather powerful. My wife thought it might be Viburnum as there is…

    Brian Holmes

    Mar 3, 2023
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    aromas, flowers, Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, Spring, Trees
  • 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…

    Brian Holmes

    Feb 21, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • 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…

    Brian Holmes

    Jan 27, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • 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,…

    Ring of blossom

    Brian Holmes

    Jan 27, 2023
    Uncategorized
  • Waldeinsamkeit

    I’ve been meaning to write something about Autumn for some time now. In the meantime, I’ve been taking photographs on my daily walk – which doesn’t half slow me down and knock off the heart points – and I hadn’t realised just how many photos I had in store. More than 200 when I sat…

    Waldeinsamkeit

    Brian Holmes

    Dec 3, 2022
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    Autumn, Fall, Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, National Tree week, Trees, Waldeinsamkeit
  • Individuality in trees

    I’ve mentioned recently that trees have been changing colour. What I found interesting was the fact that the trees do this in a very individual way. One particular Ash tree may very well change to a wonderful lemon-yellow colour whilst another Ash tree, right next to it, will stay green. One of those Ash trees…

    Individuality in trees

    Brian Holmes

    Oct 22, 2022
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    Autumn, Fall, Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, Trees
  • Autumn colour

    Earlier this year I had a mind to try and capture all the various shades of green in the park, while all the colours of the leaves were clean and fresh as a breath of spring air. Well, it didn’t happen and now it’s way too late as summer has come and gone and we…

    Autumn colour

    Brian Holmes

    Oct 21, 2022
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    Autumn, Fall, Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, Trees
  • Noteworthy trees

    There is a permanent section in the website about noteworthy trees but at the moment there is a lot happening with trees blooming and going into seed in what seems like the blink of an eye. I’ve already written about the chocolate-smelling tree, Azara microphylla. That has well and truly finished flowering now. In late…

    Brian Holmes

    May 15, 2022
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, Trees
  • What a difference a few weeks makes

    In March I took some pictures of some small red flowers on a tree. There were so many they made the whole tree appear red against the sky. There were no leaves at that time and I had no idea what the tree was. These are female flowers made up of a stigma (top), style…

    Brian Holmes

    Apr 25, 2022
    Nature, Parks, Trees
    blossom, flowers, Kings Heath, Kings Heath Park, Spring, Trees
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