All the fruit has gone. The only remnants are a few pits scattered around on the ground. The bird cherry trees are dark and rather uninspiring. They look tired. It's that in between time for th...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-dark-leaves-and-spider.html
Already those green fruit are almost all red, ripe and falling. The year is rushing by. The birds love them. They are edible but very tart. but its worth cooking up a bowlful. Laden branch 7t...
The development of the tree is rushing along, but it's not a wildly exciting phase. Everything is very green, leaves, stems and developing cherries. The branches are beginning to bow with the wei...
I seem to have missed the very first stage of the fruit development but it comes so quickly after the flowers and I have been so busy. Now in early June the fruit are already quite big. ...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2015/06/developing-fruit-and-new-leaves.html
So much can happen in a month. We had a fine view of the eclipse on the 20th. Here its reflection in the pond along with the Cherry Tree branches. The Cherry Trees in the garden have blosso...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2015/04/blossom-and-leaves.html
A SHROPSHIRE LAD 2: LOVELIEST OF TREES, THE CHERRY NOW BY A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride We...
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It seems to have taken an age for the little buds on the bird cherry outside to open up. It's almost a month since the twig I brought inside flowered, but some warm sun on Saturday 7th March co...
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I am making a small book which will be a record of the development of the bird cherry over a year. It will be 12 prints bound together. I am currently studying for a Masters Degree in Book Arts ...
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Over the last two weeks we have chopped back the Bird Cherries and I had put a small twig in my painting water pot just to see if it might survive for a while. I had been so busy I had neither pa...
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I have decided that the Wild Cherries Prunus Avium are going to be my tree this year. I have mixed feelings about them but their popularity with wildlife is the decider. At the moment it the...
I am thinking about which tree to follow this year.... a change I think, so I gathered some inspiring twigs and did a few sketches. I am also looking for a “good” twig as the basis for a set...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2015/01/deciding-which-tree-to-follow-for-2015.html
Grey, grey and windy and very muddy and probably my last post on the Chestnut Trees. I am hoping to continue with the tree following but with a different tree, yet to be decided. It is fascinati...
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My last post for 2014 On a bright December day I walked to see my Church Field trees, now almost completely bare. The new path that has been made across the field is interesting in that I have ...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-buds.html
Two of the magnificent Chestnut Trees in the grounds of the old farm across the road from where we live, have been felled. It seems to me a barbarous act of vandalism but there may have been a go...
Its the 9th Sept and the weather is glorious. After picking blackberries I walked down to see the Chestnut trees. Conkers litter the ground and the great leaves are getting more and more browned;...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/09/conkers-falling-leaves-and-huge.html
17th July 17th July: I walked to the chestnut trees on a steamy afternoon. The wild flower meadow in front has been mown. I wonder if any of the flowers will spring up again before winte...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-field-is-cut.html
Easton Walled Gardens has some magnificent Chestnut trees, both white and pink flowering. We are making a joint panel for our exhibition in August and one of my sections is mostly tree. I added...
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Its been a busy time and I have been able to get to the tree only a couple of times. The flower spike has changed from a mass of flowers to just a few fledging conkers. The great beautiful lea...
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We are just back from a weekend in beautiful Amsterdam where huge chestnut trees line the roads and canals.Their falling flowers are mingling with the elm blossom combining to make the famous "Sp...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/05/amsterdam-horse-chestnuts-and-anne.html
The Horse Chestnuts in the village have galloped ahead of me and are in full bloom, their fabulous scented candelabra flowers weighing down the trailing branches. I might get round to drawing a f...
With my back to the church looking towards the two Horse Chestnuts across Church Field which two years ago was planted with pollinator wildflowers. They are coming through in patches and the mild...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-church-trees-to-30th-april.html
This month has seen terrific growth for the Horse Chestnuts in the village. They are now all in full flower. A catch up of images of the one particular branch I have been watching from the 10th ...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/04/april-horse-chestnut-bud-update.html
The old blackened conkers I put in a pot are beginning to sprout a bit more ( amazing!!). A leaf about to emerge I went looking for more. I found a couple on the verge which had escaped ...
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The opened buds are getting almost too big for me to draw on my desk. Each flower spike has 4 spreading leaves surrounding it and there are either 5 or 6 leaflets to each leaf. This spike is 9...
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The horse chestnut bud is expanding very quickly. I feel I should have measured the growth. By the 6th April the flower spike has lengthened and the leaves and leaf stalks have expanded away f...
http://followingtrees.blogspot.com/2014/04/bud-development-to-7th-april.html