GREENWOOD
Nature and the neighbourhood
Wet Leaf Texture in November
Posted on November 6, 2022
Wet dead leaves of Plane and Whitebeam in a heap against the wall on the north side of Greenwood House, 5 November 2022.
Autumn Beech Leaves 2
Posted on November 4, 2022
Autumn Beech leaves on the cascading lower branches of one of the huge Copper Beech trees on the south side of Greenwood House. The small round holes in the leaves where the light shines through are the places where galls made by minute insects have fallen away once the larvae have emerged.
Autumn Beech Leaves 1
Posted on November 3, 2022
Autumn Beech leaves surviving in the middle of otherwise bare upright branches on a small tree in the Greenwood House car park. The twigs are already bearing leaf buds for next Spring.
Autumn Leaves – London Plane
Posted on October 17, 2021
We can’t fail to note the progress of autumn as we exit the Greenwood House car park or walk up to the village shop. The leaves on the London Planes outside Herrison Hall, and up the slope where we duck the low branches, are fast changing colour and falling.
Autumn Leaves – Brambles
Posted on October 8, 2021
Small and ordinary can be beautiful and delight the eye. I have been watching the Bramble leaves turning red in this early autmn as the berries are in various stages of ripening.
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