Our walnut didn't produce the catkins for some years. It was very young. Thankfully someone else in our village did have one much older and showed us the catkins and then the female flowers. We had "walnuts" last year but empty. Still a young tree.
Looks just like mine. The fat catkins look just like fat caterpillars when they eventually drop
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
Yes they're lovely big trees, my neighbours has one that's uprooting the pavement. I had to take one out which came up in my (tiny) garden. The jackdaws raid the neighbours' tree and drop me off quite a few nuts though. 😄
We have 3, two on the boundary with other trees and shrubs mixed in and both old and weakening. One blew over in a storm and we were considering how best to remove it whilst retrieving any good wood when it burst into leaf last spring and produced some walnuts for the first time in 6 years.
The younger one, planted 40 years ago by a grandson of previous owners, fruits well but not so much last year. Good nuts tho. OH spends a few evenings shelling them and I freeze them in small bags for making cakes and savoury dishes and give some to neighbours.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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It is perfect!
These are the male flowers.
See link for female flowers.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juglans_regia_fruit_(walnut)_and_female_flowers.jpg
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Not small trees.
This is one in Perth UK near M & S.
The younger one, planted 40 years ago by a grandson of previous owners, fruits well but not so much last year. Good nuts tho. OH spends a few evenings shelling them and I freeze them in small bags for making cakes and savoury dishes and give some to neighbours.
I love the way nature just cracks on wherever possible.