Tree flowers

In my last post I mentioned the flowers on oak and elm trees and here are some others.

These on the large white willow by the stream below Warwick Place

Outside the St Peter's Hospice shop in the High Street you can see the birch flowers.  The male catkins are now drooping while the smaller upright ones are the females, which will fatten up with seed to feed the birds in winter

The Lawson Cypress is a north American tree so not native, but it is very common in gardens in all its varieties, usually forming an upright conical tree.

The female cones are already forming 

but earlier the tree was rusty red with small, red male catkins.

Close up you can see the remains of the red male flowers at the ends of the leaves.

The flowers on sycamore hang down in chains

Male flowers at the bottom and females at the top.  You can see the helicopter seeds forming near the top already.

 Male and female flowers of ash form on separate trees.  

 The female flowers are already pollinated and developing into the seeds called ash keys.