CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

 Some pictures from a walk last week in the Derwent Walk Country Park, Winlaton Mill, Gateshead. Silver birches and willows, seen from the t...

  Silver birch seed catkins are ripening now and fall apart at the slightest touch. Their seeds are an important food resource for several s...

  As winter draws to a close I always look forward to the first hazel catkins, that signal a change in the seasons ......... but then, when ...

Graceful silver birches Betula pendula Sweet chestnut Castanea sativa Hawt...

Auckland Park, in Bishop Auckland in County Durham, has a fine collection of venerable trees with beautiful bark patterns.  Hawthorn...