Beech Winter Image

My favourite tree on the benches in Winter. Shown here with and without leaf.

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Korean Hornbeam

My Korean Hornbeam showing the change from Autumn into Winter.

Before trimming.

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After trimming.

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And in Winter image after dewiring.

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Winter Image: Trident Maple

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Winter Image – Korean Hornbeam

My Korean Hornbeam was very slow to drop leaves this Autumn. This was it on the 15th November!

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This was it this weekend just past it’s best colour.

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After a clean up for Winter.

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Winter Image – Trident Maple

That time of the year when we get to see the good and the bad in the branch structure of our trees.The dregs of Autumn removed to show my Trident Maple.

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Beech Winter Image

 

Front

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Back

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Disappearing Bit by Bit

This old tree is a bit of a landmark if you live in Bangor County Down. It can be seen from the road when travelling from Bangor to Holywood. It’s in a now famous field as Rihanna cavorted around in it during the Summer and got told off by a local farmer 🙂

Michael over on his futterwithtrees blog photographed it back in December 2011 but as you can see, recent storms have reduced the tree even further.

This is Michaels shot last year

and mine from last weekend

Cork Bark Elm Winter Image

Grown from a cutting, starting to look the part.

Trident – 2010 – 2011 – 2012

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Ready for some thinning out but I’m trying to increase the canopy size.

Cork Bark Elm Winter Image

I eventually got around to taking a few snaps of this Cork Bark Elm yesterday.

I’m trying to keep a decent record of it through the years to capture how the ramification improves.

It’s field grown tree and this is now it’s 3rd year in a pot from collection.

Grown from a cutting, it’s taken 11 years to get it to this point.