Blossoming nature and ideas!
- Jen Blaxall.
- 13 hours ago
- 2 min read
Today, I took a wander at Ibsley to recce a walk and get inspired for a summer event I am planning, but it was far from summer in the heavy, greying skies, but it didn't take away from my enjoyment on this beautiful walk. Although it is Bank Holiday Monday, I did not cross paths with another person, so I could get deeply immersed into nature without distraction.
Have you noticed the abundance of blossom this year?
Heathlands painted in sunshine yellow with the abundance and fragrant gorse flower. Low to the ground in ancient woodlands, bilberry is decorated with delicate baubles of bloom. Apple trees, embellished with pinks and white, and hawthorn and holly weighing heavy with their imminent blossom.
Hazel trees are unfurling their leaves into soft and uniquely patterned foliage, just like the finger prints of the tree, and the early growth of hazel nuts are showing.
The abundance of blooms and blossoms may give you the opportunity to spot flowers on the trees, you would more than often miss. The oak trees are dripping in catkins at the moment. These are the male flowers, with the female flower tucked by the leaf bud as a tiny pink flower, which will eventually become an acorn.
This specific oak tree was adorned with oak apples, which are not apples but rather galls formed by a gall wasp that lays her eggs in the tree's leaf bud. This causes the tree to develop these growths. The larvae consume the tissue inside the gall before undergoing metamorphosis and emerging as adults in June.
Although, it wasn't a summers day today, nature once again supported me in my intentions. My main focus on this walk was the amount of different blooms I could see, and as the trees grow and blossom, so did my ideas to offer you a beautiful day in nature amongst the abundance of summer.
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