Autumn is a rather more modest affair here, the evergreen oaks are a sombre backdrop. My Persimmon tree lost a lot of leaves in high winds but is providing some colour:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Beech trees across the lane. I'm going to have to put my wellies on to investigate a tree that I can see from the house that is a lovely golden colour but can't tell what it is because the shape is fudged by trees in front of it. I shall report back anon . . .
Gorgeous Woodgreen, there are still a few colours to delight us. The leaf reminds me of the half and half bracken that I posted when I was up in the Highlands a few weeks ago.
Yes I did id the tree the other day it was beech with hazel in front of it. See below. I took some pics of a sad tale the other day too, I'll load them and explain.
The first pic is part of a stand of beech trees that I see from my conservatory window at the back of the house, leading up to the wood. They were planted as a hedge around the field many years ago and they have just been allowed to grow. They are huge and beautiful autumn colours.
The second pic is of the beech nearest the house from the other side. Note the bottom right of the pic you can just see part of the roof of the conservatory, coming towards the trees is the sitting room and my bedroom, it's a single story cottage.
The third pic is one of the reasons that they have to come down. You can see they are infected with fungi. I know why they are infected and if anyone is interested I'll tell you. The second reason they have to come down is that at best even if one of them is blown down it would squash my car and at worst it would come down over the house and into the lane,. And if I happened to be in bed at the time... I live on a lane that is called Windy Edge on the OS map.
I can imagine you are feeling pretty torn by what must be done @Uff, but diseased trees.....how fortunate that they didn't succumb to Arwen, as irrespective of the wind direction I would think a big tree breaking rather then uprooting could fall unpredictably? Why are they infected?
Yes you are quite right Woodgreen, as we saw after Arwen, one tree can and does bring down another one or even more in its fall. The trees are directly in the path of the sw wind. I'm hoping to be able to persuade the estate to take the trees down to the crown and thereby leave the stumps for wildlife and fungi. I put the idea to the forest manager the other day and will bring it up again. I forgot to mention that the trees are next to the main power line so Scottish Power are involved too.
About 4 years ago I noticed an orange fungi growing on them and for a while I rather stupidly thought it looked pretty. A friend who is a ranger was visiting one day spotted it and said it needed reporting because it could make the trees unstable so I got the forest manager to come and have a look and it was he that told me that the trees are infected because some time ago (before my time here) a fire had been lit near the trees and it burned the bark on the facing trunk that we can see. He said he sees it a lot and that the trees would need to come down. I'm sure you can imagine how I felt, trees are my passion and not for a minute did I imagine it would necessitate the trees coming down.
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Did you identify the golden leaved tree?
Not a tree, but here's stephanandra incisa 'crispa'.
and a mahonia leaf that caught my eye...
Yes I did id the tree the other day it was beech with hazel in front of it. See below.
I took some pics of a sad tale the other day too, I'll load them and explain.
The second pic is of the beech nearest the house from the other side. Note the bottom right of the pic you can just see part of the roof of the conservatory, coming towards the trees is the sitting room and my bedroom, it's a single story cottage.
The third pic is one of the reasons that they have to come down. You can see they are infected with fungi. I know why they are infected and if anyone is interested I'll tell you. The second reason they have to come down is that at best even if one of them is blown down it would squash my car and at worst it would come down over the house and into the lane,. And if I happened to be in bed at the time... I live on a lane that is called Windy Edge on the OS map.
Why are they infected?
I forgot to mention that the trees are next to the main power line so Scottish Power are involved too.
About 4 years ago I noticed an orange fungi growing on them and for a while I rather stupidly thought it looked pretty.
A friend who is a ranger was visiting one day spotted it and said it needed reporting because it could make the trees unstable so I got the forest manager to come and have a look and it was he that told me that the trees are infected because some time ago (before my time here) a fire had been lit near the trees and it burned the bark on the facing trunk that we can see. He said he sees it a lot and that the trees would need to come down. I'm sure you can imagine how I felt, trees are my passion and not for a minute did I imagine it would necessitate the trees coming down.