Tree following link box for May 2017

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.

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And without further ado, here are those links…

Alison at the Blackberry Garden – quince – after the frosts

Erika Groth in Sweden – rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) – plus a river in full flow and the return of some migratory birds

Hollis (In the Company of Plants and Rocks) – juniper tree on a volcanic “squeeze up” in New Mexico

Welcome to new follower Jozien and her Keeper of Wild Places blog – with soapberry and other plants of Canada’s Yukon region

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!