Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in the garden, nibbling delicate sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) greenery
The monthly tree-following link box has now closed for another month. Please explore everyone’s updates below.
Here in South Wales most of the trees are filling up with leaves, although some are quicker than others.
The horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum) are already in glorious full bloom as well as full leaf, while the ash trees (Fraxinus excelsior) are only just breaking into delicate leaf after their early wind-pollinated flowers have done their duty.
The oak (Quercus robur) seems to be ahead of the ash, so tradition says we are in for a “splash” this summer, rather than a “soak”. Certainly it has been very dry, cold and sometimes breezy for the last few weeks – no April showers as you would expect.
Why don’t you join us and follow a tree, too? You can start at any time and you don’t have to contribute every month if that’s too big a chore.
If you are new to tree following, read all about it here.
And without further ado, here are those links…
Alison at the Blackberry Garden – quince – after the frosts
Hollis (In the Company of Plants and Rocks) – juniper tree on a volcanic “squeeze up” in New Mexico
Mike – Flighty’s Plot – Liz’s tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) and Flighty’s dogwood (Cornus)
Pat – Squirrelbasket – 100 elm trees
Amy in the Sonoran Desert (A Small Sunny Garden) –
Arizona rosewood (Vauquelinia californica)
John Kingdon – The Rivendell Garden Blog – crab apple’s month of acceleration
Frances at Island Threads, off the North West coast of Scotland – rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Thank you to everyone – see you all again on June 7, and maybe some more newcomers, too!
What a great picture of a squirrel, love it. I have lots of squirrels and whilst they drive me crazy when they eat the bulbs I plant, I remain sort of fond of them. Thanks as ever for hosting this meme.
Hi Pat, little internet access these days but managed to throw together a post. Hopefully I can catch up on the news at the end of the week.
Hello I’ve just posted, and linked, another combined post about Liz’s Tulip poplar and my Dogwood. xx
Excellent – will go and have a look now đ
Well, I expected my Arizona Rosewood to have open flowers by this time, but the buds are holding out a bit longer. đ Plenty of anticipation…!
I’ve been over to your blog to visit – the rosewood is looking so vigorous!
Best wishes đ
Whoops. Something went wrong when I entered the link to this month’s post – I saw an error message with lots of ?s and $s in it and while I was trying to work out what that said, my post from last month got added as no.7, sorry. This month’s is number 8.
No problem. When I close the link box and copy the links into the body of the blog this evening I will make sure I get the right one!
Your Malus is looking good…
Best wishes đ
I hope that squirrel is not eating anything it shouldn’t, nice photo Pat,
I’ve just posted my contribution for May, I will be back tomorrow when I have more time and have a nice Sunday wander through the tree posts,
thanks for hosting, Frances
Your rowan is looking good.
The squirrels are really annoying at the moment, eating all the bird food I put out, so I don’t mind it nibbling this sycamore, which self-seeded years ago.
One of the squirrels has now worked out the dustbin in which I keep the bird food and has started gnawing the heavy black rubber lid – teeth marks all round!
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday đ