Exotic trees often produce the strongest colours of autumn. The tree of heaven originated in China.
Its leaves turn a subtle mix of yellows, oranges and even pinks.
The large flower or seed head of this one shows it is a female tree.
View across the floral bed to a large tree whose leaves were just beginning to turn autumnal at the end of last month.
With this post, the number of posts has reached 2,000, with at least one post a day since September 2009. There have been more than 3,500 photos and 35 short videos, almost all taken within a day’s round trip travel of Wolverhampton.
I don’t feel any nearer to exhausting the range of subject matter than I did when the blog started.
Almost as ghostly looking as when the same cultivated plant was in flower.
This year has been a very poor one for many fruits and berries.
A few days ago, I went to the edge of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve. There’s a patch of blackthorn bushes there.
At this time of year they are usually covered in ripening sloes. This was the only one I could spot.