gdn[HC] - just started {1 of 11}

{OK} gdn[HC] - Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Folder: OTHER INTERESTS - indirectly related to work
More than a couple of years ago [it was almost five years, to my surprise, when I checked], I rescued a tiny, pot-bound Horse Chestnut seedling. The first stage of the rescue was to repot it into a suitable container, which involved getting rid of some vine weevils, and allowing it to "harden off" as it was now a couple of hundred miles further North. About 18 months later it was planted out in an…  (read more)
  • gdn[HC] - just started {1 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - beginning to open {2 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - unfurling underway {3 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - separating leaves {4 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - leaflets opening {5 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - palmate crinkled & visible {6 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - palmate visible {7 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - young leaves {8 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - delicate ? {9 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] - the wonder of new spring growth
  • gdn[HC] - fully opened leaves {11 of 11}
  • gdn[HC] / SoS[23] - the tip bud opens
  • SoS[23] - breaking bud
  • gdn[HC] - top bud
  • SoS[23] - horse chestnut