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Trees

Amy

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Amy hit us with full force yesterday afternoon and left a lot of damage in its wake. It could have been worse, but my garden wasn’t spared, with a massive “rotvelt” (root throw) partly downing one of the tallest trees in the garden, a Norway maple (spisslønn), the second large tree to fall this year (see also:
https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=33221). It was amazing this morning to see how little soil this tree was growing on. So, we have a new feature in the garden this morning with new habitat for nature to colonise, with the tree’s canopy now hanging over the pond area. More pictures and videos to follow.

Just an hour before, the tree was still upright:

Calm before the storm:

Mid-storm view:

Apple tree swaying in the wind; most of the apples were thrown off:

Apple harvest will be easier although the fruit will maybe won’t store so well. The third photo shows apples lying under my udo (Aralia cordata) which was also toppled.

Inspecting this morning! Roots had snapped and a 6-7m wide strip had peeled back to the rock revealing how little soil the roots were growing on!

A few more pictures this morning :

The crown of the tree now touching the ground in the pond area!
The crown of the tree now touching the ground in the pond area!

Autumn leaves, Trees

Norway Maple Fall

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With cold nights down to -5C currently, most trees are now shedding their leaves and there’s a carpet of leaves under the Norway maple (spisslønn), a tree that prefers the shallow drier soils in the garden (compared to sycamore / platanlønn). A treecreeper (trekryper) calling can be heard at 0:38! The large leaves are very useful for protecting less hardy plants in winter.

Birds, Trees

Singing Brambling

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Bramblings (bjørkefink) are common breeding birds at higher elevations, but it’s just possible that they will breed here one day. This is the closest I’ve got with a male singing the last few days in the garden, here atop a Norway maple (spisslønn), the flowers still waiting after two very cold weeks!

Seed, Trees, weather

Snow covered with storm blown debris and seed

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After the storm some days ago now, it was interesting to see how evenly the seed from Norway maple / sycamore and birch (spiss- og platanlønn og bjørk) was spread evenly over the whole garden…it’s easy to imagine how the more open parts of the garden would quickly transform to forest given the chance!
Most trees had an enormous production of seed and berries this year following the hot summer  in 2018 and mild winter last year.