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Ash trees
AprilG
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Our garden is covered with what seems to be Ash seeds (not keys) this is May, we have lived here over 40 years and it has never happened before. We would remember because there are thousands and thousands and there is an Ash tree nearby, we get keys every autumn and regard that a normal, but this is something new. Can anyone explain please.
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I think a photo will be required.
Those keys are the seeds. Anything else is something else
In the sticks near Peterborough
Do they look like these? If so, lucky you, they're the male ash flowers so you will not get the ash keys from that tree this year. Ash trees can change gender; that's obviously what's happened with yours this year http://www.habitataid.co.uk/british-trees-plants-seeds/Common-Ash--Fraxinus-excelsior.html
We have two ash trees - usually they are one of each
so we get lots of keys each autumn and lots of seedlings in the spring - but we love the trees and touch wood, they're still healthy 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Many thanks for your very prompt replies Dovefromabove and nutcutlet (love the name) and apologies for my tardy reply. I had no idea ash trees could change gender, do any other trees do this? We have a very small garden and the tree is on a green area just the other side of our wall, so we are forever pulling out the results of keys that have decided they would like to stay. So as you say lucky us we should avoid that this year and being well on the wrong side of seventy it's a double plus. The photo here makes the seeds look brown ours are green so I guess they turn brown later. As for my talent for putting on pictures I think I can do that when I get them off the camera onto the desktop, but emojis? I definitely can't do, but the picture above looks like a brown version of what we have. I'm off now to read the link, thank you again.