Tag: Kings Heath
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Patience pays off
Last year I spent ages looking for a Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) which I knew exists in Kings Heath park, I just didn’t know where it was. The park is not all that big, no more than about 15 Hectares I guess. Enough room to fit a thousand trees and shrubs with room for a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The essence of a walk
What makes a walk in the park a good walk? The sunshine helps a great deal but some people do like to walk in the rain – even sing in the rain. Personally I prefer the sunshine, whether its cold or warm I don’t mind, as long as it’s bright. A bright blue sky with…
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Nothing to cry about
There’s a tree on the bank of the pond that is worth keeping an eye on at the moment. It grows on the tennis court side of the pond but leans over and spreads its branches out over the pond in the typical fashion of a Weeping willow (Salix babylonica). It is busily producing catkins…
Kings Heath Park Trees 