FLOORED FLOWERS

 

Male flowers of poplar (left) and ash (right) lying on the floor tell you what trees are overhead.

The female ash flowers (usually on a separate tree) cling on and develop into ash keys, once pollinated.

  

You can see the whiskery stalks of last year's keys in the photo.

Sycamore flowers are male at the bottom and female at the top.  

In a few weeks you will be able to see the samaras developing.

  

With more conventional flowers, i.e with petals, the Bird Cherry is in flower now but hurry to Filnore to see it, as the blooms soon drop.  These are on a big tree near post 11.

and these are on a smaller bush between posts 13 and 14.