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Beautiful day for walking and watching how spring is near. Good bye winter. Welcome sun.
Kastel fortress and Vrbas river in Banja Luka, RS/BiH
Bonsoir..en fait, j'attends les signes du printemps...mais en Belgique, très peu de signes..I wait !
I just can’t stop photographing the flowers, I’m so happy because spring has started.
Taken with PENTAX-M 1,4/50mm manual focus.
For "Looking close... on Friday!" and "Bokeh in Flora"
Taken with Helios 44-4 58mm.
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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 😊
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.
This morning in my garden, this gentle forsythia defied the rain.
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Hazelnut's flowers female (small pink) and male (long yellow)
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Spring is coming!!!! A little caterpillar was hidden between the grass, enjoying the sun ☀️ 🐛
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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.
The first sigs of spring are flowers in my garden.. A pair of snowdrops in my backyard.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. -
When one beginning reaches it’s end, it is time for a new beginning.
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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.