Young beech leaves in Thompson’s Park, Cardiff
I visit my nearest green space, Thompson’s Park in Canton, Cardiff, at least once a month. It has a small lower garden with a duck pond and an upper field surrounded by trees, currently at their spring best. Here are my latest pictures:
The lower garden and pond
A recent arrival in the flower bed, where the tulips have now faded…
…and a closer look at the little scarecrow
The old oak tree (Quercus robur) in the lower garden, which I followed in 2016…
…now in flower and leaf
A different oak in the lower garden
I’m not sure if this is a red oak or black oak or something else
Bluebells beside the path up to the top field
The top field
Ash (Fraxinus) leaves and flowers…
…and the bark
Flowers of horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in the top field
A red horse chestnut (Aesculus pavia or possibly Aesculus x Carnea) in the lower garden
Beech (Fagus) leaves…
…and the bark
There are another couple of small beeches, this one perhaps copper beech, on the path back down to the lower garden…
…the beeches grow around a pine tree
Wild garlic or ransoms (Allium ursinum) in the lower garden
The magnolias are fading fast now their leaves are here
I really should recognise these seed heads in the border
That’s it for now – I’ll probably visit again in June…
The Squirrelbasket 
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