This blog tries to get a bit deeper into the nature of the trees around me, mainly in the Low Weald of Kent.

Tuesday, 9 April 2013

April - Horse Chestnut

This particular Horse-Chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastaneum) is a small to medium sized one along footpath 135, the Access Trail.

There are quite a few others in the parish. There is another small one along School Lane, but the best tree by far is by the entrance to the Parish Council Car Park. The large buds of all the trees are currently trying to burst out of their sticky casings, and the sticky scales are just starting to move apart:



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