Our only truly native Maple, this is a long-lived small to medium sized tree with a compact, rounded crown. Look out for the small, lobed leaves.
Discrete yellow-green flowers emerge with new leaves in spring. Leaves turn a fine yellow colour in the autumn..
- Hedge Maple
Trees provide more benefits the older and larger they are.
Trees support 100s of other living things. This tree provides a medium benefit to insects (biomass of foliage insects).
Hawthorn is one of the most common small trees. It is a lovely, rather unkempt, tree with masses of blossom in May, and red berries - or haws - in the autumn.
- May
Trees provide more benefits the older and larger they are.
Trees support 100s of other living things. This tree provides a large benefit to insects (biomass of foliage insects).
Hop hornbeams look similar to regular hornbeams, but they are an entirley different species. Distuinguish them from their similar looking cousins by rough bark and denser, hop-like fruiting bodies.
Trees provide more benefits the older and larger they are.
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And they're off! Autumn is here and there's plenty of colour starting to show which, by the end of the month, will be at its height.
One of the first trees to turn is this rather overlooked maple. It's Freeman's Maple, Acer x freemanii, a hybrid between two North American species, Red maple (Acer rubrum) and Silver maple (Acer saccharinum). Most are the cultivar 'Autumn Blaze' which has predictably red autumnal hues, and October is their best month. The rest of the year you might be hard pressed to recognise one, their leaves are midway between their parents and look rather like a small sycamore, but they do go in for a splash of red in the spring too when their flowers appear in March before the leaves.
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