I’m a few days late with this post which should have been at the end of March, but the photos were taken on the 31st – so just in time.
There was quite a lot written about oaks in the book I read about walking through spring (yesterday’s post). The author was heading north at about the same speed as spring moves from south-east to northwest using oak trees as the guide. A 2021 survey the first report of an emerging oak leaf came from Devon on March 26th. This is from the Woodland Trust’s Nature’s Calendar which anyone can join in with.
The Oaks up the lane are still looking much the same as they did in February, the buds are just a little bigger
The Blackthorn blossoms all around the hedges are going over so perhaps that will signal the end of the “Blackthorn Winter” and the cold winds we’ve been having.
