Allestree, April, Beech Trees, DERBY, Derbyshire, England, Environmental, Everyday Life, New Life, Photography, Seasonal Change, Spring, Woodland

Spring is …..a Beech.

Spring is still very slow to make its mark upon both gardens and countryside in our part of the world…..but there are signs that life is returning. Passing my favourite old bent Beech trees this morning it was pleasing to see fresh bright green splashes of new leaves sparkling against the darker trunks of the woods……

For the most part trees are still either bare of new leaf or show buds that have swelled and about to burst. There are a few that seem to have reached a halfway point with both large swollen buds and some new leaves that have crept out to test the climate…

But one Beech out in the meadows was determined to be first and overnight miracle of growth has occurred, a bare skeleton one day and a rich head of new growth the next…..a very welcome sign of spring….

I suspect that this week we will see a rush of new growth may be even some Bluebells…who knows, May is just a couple of days away so we will have to wait and see what the start of the new month will bring.

29th April

5 thoughts on “Spring is …..a Beech.”

Risto says:

April 29, 2013 at 4:31 pm

Yes David…your spring comes faster than ours but our autumn comes much before than yours!

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krikitarts says:

April 30, 2013 at 2:14 am

Looks like it’s slowly but surely moving ahead. We had temperatures in the 80s yesterday and today, but it’s predicted to drop to well below freezing later this week. And so it goes…

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niasunset says:

April 30, 2013 at 7:24 am

I want to jump into this view… so beautiful. Thanks and Love, nia

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Scott Marshall says:

April 30, 2013 at 11:12 pm

I am not sure the seasons we seek exist any more – we seem to be out of kilter – the shots do say Spring though and the sun indicates warmth

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1. davidoakesimages says:
  
  May 1, 2013 at 9:28 am
  
  Yep…the whole outdoor scene is out of kilter. Take Bluebells (in this part of the U.K.) lots of leaf growth has at last burst through but he tree canopy is now getting fuller so no light to the floor…and from what I can see no flower heads either wanting or able to reach for that sun! Might be wrong, might be a year of more blind plants than flowers might be the result of this concertina effect on the season with everything happening at once. As to warmth….well it is no warmer here.
  
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