Monday 5 May 2014

Tree Following - guest larch

Many readers of this blog will know I'm following a larch tree in Colinton Dell, along the Water of Leith for Tree Following. At the weekend we visited Dalkeith Country Park and I took photos of a larch tree there, which had a lot more flowers easily photographable than the tree I'm following.



Even though the flowers have lost their colour they're still beautiful. You can see the flowers at their most colourful in this post.

For Nature Notes and Tree Following

14 comments:

Little Miss Titch said...

yes that is beautiful,xx

Optimistic Existentialist said...

I love this larch tree. What are those things on it? They look similar to pine cones!

Crafty Green Poet said...

Hi Optimistic - they're the flowers

eileeninmd said...

They are lovely trees and flowers.. Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing more of the Larch tree.

Unknown said...

Very nice. I cannot believe it is spring already. The tree s doing really well.

Roan said...

Beautiful lush green shots.

Hootin Anni said...

...those flowers resemble the pine cones seen here in North America.

Gillena Cox said...

Had i not read what you said i would think they were some kind of orchids growing on the trees

The blooms are lovely, cone like

Much love...

Karen said...

They look like pinecones, how pretty!

Rachel Westfall said...

What a beauty! Here in the north, our larches still look like dead twigs.

Rambling Woods said...

Beautiful tree Juliet.... Love reading the tree posts.... Michelle

Caroline Gill said...

Great to find all your tree posts listed in one place on L&L! Isn't it strange to think of cones as flowers?

Crafty Green Poet said...

Hi Caroline, I'm fascinated by watching the process of flower becoming cone....

Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax! said...

Such pretty colours! I mistook flowers on a Christmas Tree kept in a pot for growing cones once. Interesting how similar they are.