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Flowers and catkins

15 Sunday Jan 2023

Posted by sconzani in trees

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catkins, female Hazel flowers, Hazel, Hazel catkins, Hazel flowers, male Hazel catkins

On most of the Hazels I’ve checked, the male catkins look almost fully formed but are still tightly closed and the female flowers are mere buds but, during Friday’s meander, I found one Hazel that’s ahead of the rest in its development. The male catkins were open and shedding cloud-like bursts of yellow pollen when the wind caught them, and the tiny crimson-pink female flowers, looking for all the world like miniscule sea anemones, were open and receptive. Hazel nuts in the making!

230115 Hazel flowers and catkins

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Furry flowers

30 Sunday Jan 2022

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Alder, Alder catkins, British trees, catkins, female Alder flowers, female Hazel flowers, Hazel, Hazel catkins

The catkins of Hazel (left) and Alder (right) are now swinging from their respective tree branches like furry pussycats’ tails – the male catkins, that is.

220130 male hazel
220130 male alder

The female flowers are rather different, the Hazel females (left) totally different, that startlingly hot pink, and the Alder flowers (right) a little catkin-ish but much smaller (my last photo shows both male and female Alder to show the size comparison).

220130 female hazel
220130 female alder

220130 alder male and female

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347/365 Early catkins

13 Friday Dec 2019

Posted by sconzani in nature, trees, winter

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British trees, female Hazel flowers, Hazel, Hazel catkins, Hazel flowers

As I always do when I need to be ‘soothed and healed’, I went for a long walk with Nature as soon as I could get away today. There was a bitterly cold wind blowing but I was well wrapped up and, to my delight, I found a few wildflowers still in bloom, fed sunflower hearts to the hungry small birds, and then, much to my surprise, found some Hazel catkins out already – and not just the male catkins, but several of the tiny pink female flowers, which seems quite early.

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