Trees - B
Beech and birch spotted on our travels.
A reminder to myself to get the copper beech in my garden pruned!
COPPER BEECH
Sledmere
A large, majestic copper beech at Scampston Hall
Copper beech
Scampston Hall
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Massive beech roots exposed in the woodland at the east side of the lake at Newmillerdam, Wakefield.
BEECH ROOTS
Newmillerdam
I am fairly sure this is a weeping beech tree, in the National Trust training gardens at Threave, Dumfries and Galloway
WEEPING BEECH
Threave
Fagus sylvatica heterophylla. Cut leaf beech near the car park at Hutton in the Forest
CUT LEAF BEECH
Hutton in the Forest
Fagus sylvatica heterophylla. Cut leaf beech near the car park at Hutton in the Forest
CUT LEAVES, BEECH
Hutton in the Forest
A dwarf version of the purple beech - fagus sylvatica purpurea nana
Dwarf Purple beech
Yorkshire Arboretum
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One of a group of large southern beeches, nothofagus antarctica. Native to Chile, it was introduced to Britain in the 1830s.
Southern beech
Yorkshire Arboretum
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Hawthorn on Appleton common with the finest display of May blossom I have ever seen
BEECH HEDGE ESCAPE
Cluny House Gardens
Hawthorn on Appleton common with the finest display of May blossom I have ever seen
BEECH HEDGE ESCAPE
Cluny House Gardens
Silver birch growing as a specimen tree, Scampston Hall
Silver birch
Scampston Hall
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Birch trees in November sunlight at Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey
BIRCH
Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey
The attractive white peeling bark of the Himalayan birch - betula utilis
Himalayan birch
Yorkshire Arboretum
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Witches brooms in trees at Lastingham, I think in birch trees. Brooms occur when twiggy growth bursts from a single spot, triggered by a fungal attack.
WITCHES BROOMS
Lastingham
Large spreading purple or copper beech, fagus sylvatica purpurea. Kiplin Hall North Yorkshire, June.
COPPER BEECH
Kiplin Hall
