A small thread about trees flowering in my field: first up, the apple - this variety is discovery and it is grafted to a medium root stock.

[janet_52square@sunny.garden]

A small thread about trees flowering in my field: first up, the apple - this variety is discovery and it is grafted to a medium root stock.
#trees
#BloomScrolling

[janet_52square@sunny.garden]

Second: crab apple, these are native species crab apples and firm part of our wildlife hedge.

[janet_52square@sunny.garden]

Third: downy birch (Betula pubescens) with its characteristic male catkins and the female flowers stand erect.
#trees
#NativePlants

[janet_52square@sunny.garden]

Fourth: the sycamore- debate rages (or a few experts differ) on whether this can be counted as a native tree. The long pendulous flowers turn to familiar ‘keys’ or seeds with a flat surface to catch the wind in autumn and it self seeds prolifically.
#Sycamore

[suearcher@toot.wales]

@Janet_52square

I have been fostering trees in pots, and have seven oaks, three birch and two horse chestnut at the moment.

We have nowhere to plant them here, but I hope we'll be able to take them with us to wherever we end up - although I also hope we'll be buying somewhere with plenty of mature trees already.

[maker_of_things@cupoftea.social]

@suearcher @Janet_52square
We could start growing a map of Kent!

I've been through Seven Oaks quite often.
As a kid, there used to be a 'Pick Your Own' farm in Kent, and we'd go there to do exactly that.