The female flowers (or are they catkins?) will develop into beech mast.
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Whitebeam buds spreading
The leaf-buds were just beginning to open on this tree in early April.
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Groundsel beginning to flower
The flowers were just beginning to come out on this common weed.
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Marsh marigolds flowering
This damp-loving plant is a relative of buttercups.
These were pictured at Bag Pool, Baggeridge Park.
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Tree flowers
The flowers of various trees. First, horse chestnuts.
A willow.
Sycamore: the leaves are showing the first signs of brown spot.
Two more views of willow flowers or catkins.
Finally a (cultivated) apple with the buds about to bloom.
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Leasowes views
Leasowes is a huge green open space in Halesowen, based around the park laid out by the poet William Shenstone. Above: looking down from the canal embankment towards Breaches Pool.
The Dudley No 2 canal, looking towards the site of the long-collapsed Lapal Tunnel which used to carry the canal towards Dudley.