The monthly tree-following link box has now closed for another month. Please explore everyone’s updates below.
Here in Cardiff June has started with cold, wet and windy weather after a hot, dry and sunny spell in May.
I have made my monthly visit to the 100 elm trees I am following in Cardiff’s Pontcanna Fields and shared a post, but here are a couple of pictures taken of a nearby maple tree.
If you are new to tree following, read all about it here.
And without further ado, here are this month’s links…
Erika Groth in Sweden – rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Alison at the Blackberry Garden – quince – and medlar
Mike – Flighty’s Plot – Liz’s tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) and Flighty’s dogwood (Cornus)
Pat – Squirrelbasket – 100 elm trees
John Kingdon – The Rivendell Garden Blog – crab apple’s promise of things to come
Hollis (In the Company of Plants and Rocks) – desert “willow”
Frances at Island Threads, off the North West coast of Scotland – rowan (Sorbus aucuparia)
Thank you to everyone – see you all again on July 7. 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 much of a commitment for you.
Pat, one thing I’ve learned recently is that there are a lot of ‘soldier beetles’ of different but similar species. I don’t think your ID is necessarily right although with only a side view that I can’t enlarge, I’m not sure, and I’m no expert. I have just had one identified on the “Beetles of Britain and Ireland” group on Facebook (do join if you are interested) as Cantharis livida, quite similar at casual glance. I’d attach an image but no facility to do that here.
Sorry, I forget how meticulous you are!
I must stop bandying around identifications when I know nothing!
For now I have added your suggestion to the caption.
Thank you for your keenness.
Best wishes on this unusual election results day…
Hi Thanks for hosting this meme again.
Hello, I’ve just posted and linked this month’s combined post by Liz and myself. It’s a bit brief but we’ve both been rather busy in recent weeks. xx
[…] tree following time again. Thanks, as always, go to Squirrelbasket for hosting this meme. As regular readers will know, I’m being lazy and am following a tree […]
Hi Pat. Just added my little snippet for this month. It’s surprising that, despite my thinking nothing would have happened and maybe I’d give it a miss, something has so I haven’t. Next month, though, I’m going to sidestep to my tree’s next-door neighbour for a bit of variety.
Thanks so much for contributing again – summer can be a bit “boring” on the tree-following front and we all have so many other things to do!
The fruit is looking good. May you spend many more happy hours standing in the middle of your lawn đŸ™‚
Fossil palm eluded me again … because winter returned to western Wyoming! So I returned to the Mojave Desert đŸ™‚ I guess I’m a follower of random trees this year.
I love it!
Rules are made to be broken, as long as your posts are vaguely tree related – and this one was as informative and entertaining as ever đŸ™‚
hello Pat, interesting about the beetles, there are so many with such minor differences I’ve mostly given up trying to identify them so brave you for making the attempt, I call most of them ‘Alexander’ (A. A. Milne), and I love the way the elderberry is growing in the shelter of the maple,
my post is linked, thanks as always for hosting, Frances
I long ago gave up, although I know I should try harder. I’m just pleased I get it approximately right.
I had forgotten Alexander was A A Milne – I always think of it as that song by Melanie (which I have just listened to again on YouTube)…
Those elderberries get everywhere (no doubt passed through the systems of birds as they sit in the crooks of trees).
Thanks again for posting about your be-berried rowan.
All the best đŸ™‚