Last week we went to the Farmers Market in Boyle, County Roscommon, and as we parked the car we noticed a beige coloured fluff all over the road, the footpaths and piled up in the gutters:
Gabriel standing on a footpath covered in beige coloured fluff
Have you figured it out? Look above Gabriel’s head and you’ll notice the overhanging branches of great big beech trees. Their fluffy flowers have spilled out all over the place.
Beech flowers piled up in the gutters in Boyle
You may have noticed similar near where you live. The ground under the big beech tree down at the Cabin is also covered with flowers. In my last post I spoke about ash seeds generally needing 18 months to germinate, but with beech it is the following Spring. Get ready to start weeding beech seedlings out of the garden next spring!
Close up of beech flowers spilling their pollen onto the footpath.
It’s a fabulous time of the year. And this year, after the great big freeze of the winter months, the trees seem to be celebrating in every possible way. To see this kind of abundance being expressed so freely in the world of trees is such a reminder that ‘the economy’ is only one aspect of life 
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Great shots of the yellow fluff and I will spread the word in Victoria about letting the ash seeds breath. Beautiful Autumn here with vivid orange and yellow leaves on the various trees. Many old elms near me and plane trees line the streets. I wonder what evidence of Autumn still remains in the country this weekend ?
What I’m noticing here in Venice is the late blooming of our gorgeous jacarandas. Our Spring was cold (relatively) so the usual purple May has been instead a purple June. It’s so delicious to ride through the year with our flowering trees.