Young horse chestnut in flower.
Clissold Park, N4, 2011
Horse chestnut.
Clissold Park, N4, April 2012
A horse chestnut bud begins to open.
Clissold Park, N4, April 2013
The opening bud reveals the flower it has been shielding.
Clissold Park, N4, April 2013
The flower unfurled from the bud, soon to become one of thousands of ‘candles’.
Clissold Park, N4, April 2013
The fully open horse chestnut ’candle‘ of flowers.
Clissold Park, N4, 2012
Horse chestnut fruit, young conkers, still showing the structure of the candles.
Clissold Park, N4, 2012
Horse chestnuts in flower.
Clissold Park, N4, April 2011
Many horse chestnuts planted in the nineteenth century have reached the end of their maturity and are susceptible to the loss of major branches or, as in this case, their central stem.
Clissold Park, N4, 2011
A group of open grown horse chestnuts in flower.
Clissold Park, N4, 2012
Old horse chestnut.
Hatfield Forest, 2011
Horse chestnut re-growing after the collapse of its main stem.
Nr. Wendover, Bucks, 2011
Horse chestnut just making buds
Aberdeen Park, N5, 2012
Horse chestnut leaves.
Collins Road, N4, End of April, 2012
Horse chestnut, early showing of leaf miner damage by caterpillars of the moth Cameraria ohridella. Before the end of summer all the leaves will be brown, the tree seemingly dead. However, Horse chestnuts recover from this pest in the next spring and the cycle recommences.
Early June 2011
Horse chestnut in August, recovering from caterpillars of the moth Cameraria ohridella by presenting new flowers and leaves.
Clissold Park, N4, 2011
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