Sunday 8 May 2011

Philorth: Walk Through the Woods

Arctic Bramble forming a sprawling hedge by the North Lodge

Horse chestnut candles


The trees in 'The Wilderness'  are all now in fresh new leaf,  the horse is standing under a horsechest nut,  there is a copper beech in the background.

The 'Ruddy Dendrons' which line the main driveways are coming into flamboyant flower.
'For those that like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing that they like.'

The wood smells strongly of the carpetting wood garlic

The ash trees remain bare, their buds hardly opened yet in contrast to the sycamores, beech and horsechest nut trees. We have looked in vain for an oak to consider
'Oak before ash, we are in for a splash
Ash before oak we are in for a soak.'

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