EarlySpringSigns photos on Flickr

Hazel is wind-pollinated and not reliant on insects so most of the pollen produced is blown away and doesn’t find it’s target.The target for the pollen is the female flower.

The Hazel tree is monoecious, meaning that each tree has both male and female flowers.

Hazel catkins (male flowers) are an inflorescence of small flowers that form in the autumn and are with us all winter, they can begin to open in January if the weather is mild. Each catkin is a flower head, comprised of about 240 small flowers. Each flower is covered by a triangular downy bract, beneath the bract are four stamens and each stamen has two yellow anthers (the pollen producing male part of a flower).A single anther will produce around nine thousand grains of pollen and one catkin, nearly nine million. A Hazel tree produces a lot of pollen.

The female flowers grow in clusters from small buds above the catkins. Only the red petals of the flowers protrude from the buds and the female inflorescence typically measures 2-4 mm across, It is a very small flower. Each female flower has two red styles (The pollen receiving female part of a flower). Each bud contains a cluster of between four and fourteen female flowers.

Once pollinated the female flowers produce the fruit, hazel nuts in July.

How much hazelnuts I will collect in July depends on who is faster, the squirrels or me 😊

Forsythia Europaea by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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This morning in my garden, this gentle forsythia defied the rain.

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Early Spring Signs by photalena

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Too early by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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These tiny flowers (less than 1 cm) usually bloom in April but sunny days have tricked them into appearing earlier than usual. Unfortunately, the night frost damages them a lot.

A first daisies by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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Early springs signs by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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Hazelnut's flowers female (small pink) and male (long yellow)

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Grünfink by Andrea Images...

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happy weekend with a lot of sun

My hidden garden by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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A common violets in its natural environment.

#FlickrFriday_Early Spring Signs_Willow Catkin by Thomas Duerr

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end of a long week.. by AngharadW

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but got there. Was preparing food for the family, reached for the camera, made the most of the overcast conditions after this mornings rain, headed out for a hunt for raindrops and daffs.

Early Spring Signs by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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Golden Hour on the Danube river

Spring 2020 by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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The first sigs of spring are flowers in my garden.. A pair of snowdrops in my backyard.

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#EarlySpringSigns by Astrid

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what a welcome home! by AngharadW

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Daffs and rain. The perfect Welsh welcome home!

galanthus nivalis by Andrea Images...

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snowdrops love forever

Start / Finish ! by AnouarDZ

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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. -

Seneca the Younger

When one beginning reaches it’s end, it is time for a new beginning.

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#EarlySpringSigns -- FlickrFriday by Jessie T*

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I scoured woodlands and parks for any signs of spring and was hard pressed to find any. The fact is, I fear spring is a long way away yet. ;-/ The high here today was -3 C and it's supposed to snow this week.

Finally though, I started looking more closely at some of the trees. Aha! Signs of new growth.

patterns in early spring by Lana Pahl / Country Star Photography/The Best of P

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NW OHIO

Kleines Schneeglöckchen by thunderbird-72

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Violets by Angelina Todorovic Stanic

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Taken with Helios 44-4 58mm. I like a bokeh that this lens makes.

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Vier lila Krokusse warten auf etwas... ~ Four In A Row Are Waiting For Something by Frau D. aus D.

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