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Laburnum Avenue was part of the later phase of development from 1898 onwards.
These streets tell the story of Wallsend’s own aspirational artisans who spent their earnings in their own cooperative society. They were families who got together and put their dividends and savings towards providing mortgage loans so they could their own homes.
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The Laburnum tree, ones of natures spring time beauties. The trailing yellow flowers wave gently in the breeze. Nature really is spectacular.
A photo taken on my daily exercise walk during lockdown around Lofthouse Colliery 0n Saturday 9 May 2020.
This Famous Laburnum Arch is at its best at Bodnant Gardens now . It's absolutly amazing and the capture does not do it justice.
Laburnum, taken with a Vivitar IC101 Panoramic camera and Agfaphoto Vista 200 from Poundland.
Camera cost £1, as did the roll of film.
Taken for the Sunny 16 podcasts Film of the month project. We started with Agfa Vista because it's cheap and good. Enough.
Laburnum (commonly called Golden Chain) is a genus of two species of small trees in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, Laburnum anagyroides (common laburnum) and L. alpinum (Alpine laburnum). They are native to the mountains of southern Europe from France to the Balkan Peninsula. Some botanists include a third species, Laburnum caramanicum, but this native of southeast Europe and Asia Minor is usually treated in a distinct genus Podocytisus, more closely allied to the brooms.
They have yellow pea-flowers in pendulous racemes 10–30 cm (4–12 in) long in spring, which makes them very popular garden trees. In L. anagyroides the racemes are 10–20 cm (4–8 in) long, with densely packed flowers; in L. alpinum the racemes are 20–30 cm (8–12 in) long, but with the flowers sparsely along the raceme.
The leaves are trifoliate, somewhat like a clover, the leaflets typically 2–3 cm (¾–1¼ in) long in L. anagyroides and 4–5 cm (1½–2 in) long in L. alpinum.
Most garden specimens are of the hybrid between the two species, Laburnum × watereri (Voss's Laburnum), which combines the longer racemes of L. alpinum with the denser flowers of L. anagyroides; it also has the benefit of low seed production (Laburnum seed can poison anyone who mistakes the seeds for peas).
The yellow flowers are responsible for the old poetic name 'golden chain tree' (also spelled golden chaintree or goldenchain tree).
All parts of the plant are poisonous and can be lethal if consumed in excess. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils. In some cases, diarrhea is very severe and at times the convulsions are markedly tetanic. The main toxin in the plant is Cytisine, a nicotinic receptor agonist. It is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Buff-tip.
The heart-wood of a laburnum may be used as a substitute for ebony or rosewood, very hard and a dark chocolate brown, with a butter-yellow sapwood.
D16631. The Laburnum Arch at the beautiful National Trust gardens at Bodnant near Conway in North Wales. If ever there was a photographer's paradise, this must be it!
The best time to visit is mid to late May as that is when the Laburnum Arch is in full bloom. I was there at the beginning of May which is a bit early but, because it had been a warm Spring, it was coming into flower at the far end. Later in the month the whole arch would have been a mass of brilliant yellow flowers from one end to the other.
Full details can be found here : www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden?awc=3795_14953149...
Tuesday, 2nd May, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Taken at open-day of Kincardine House gardens, Aberdeenshire. This bench is at one end of a beautiful laburnum walk.
Esta planta es conocida como Citisus laburnum y con el nombre común de "lluvia de oro". Villa La Angostura, Neuquén, Patagonia argentina.
My dad planted a laburnum at the front of the house about ten years ago. With care and feeding, it's getting bigger and brighter every year.
D16633. The Laburnum Arch at the beautiful National Trust gardens at Bodnant near Conway in North Wales. If ever there was a photographer's paradise, this must be it!
The best time to visit is mid to late May as that is when the Laburnum Arch is in full bloom. I was there at the beginning of May which is a bit early but, because it had been a warm Spring, it was just coming into flower, but only at the far end. Later in the month the whole arch would have been a mass of brilliant yellow flowers from one end to the other.
Full details can be found here : www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden?awc=3795_14953149...
Tuesday, 2nd May, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
June 15, 2019 – Laburnum Arbour.
One of the iconic features of the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens is the Laburnum Arbour. It was fun to watch so many visitors today wander through the arbour gazing in wonder at all the cascading blossoms.
D16632. The Laburnum Arch at the beautiful National Trust gardens at Bodnant near Conway in North Wales. If ever there was a photographer's paradise, this must be it!
The best time to visit is mid to late May as that is when the Laburnum Arch is in full bloom. I was there at the beginning of May which is a bit early but, because it had been a warm Spring, it was just coming into flower, but only at the far end. Later in the month the whole arch would have been a mass of brilliant yellow flowers from one end to the other.
Full details can be found here : www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bodnant-garden?awc=3795_14953149...
Tuesday, 2nd May, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Laburnum alpinum (Mill.) Bercht. & J. Presl, syn.: Cytisus alpinus Mill.
Family: Fabaceae Lindl.
EN: Alpine Laburnum, Scotch Laburnum, DE: Sudalpen Goldregen, Alpen-Goldregen
Slo.: alpski nagnoj
Dat.: May 29. 2018
Lat.: 46.406605 Long.: 13.733105 (WGS84)
Code: Bot_1137/2018_IMG185002
Picture file names: from Laburnum-alpinum_raw_10 to Laburnum-alpinum_raw_14.
Habitat: Narrow Alpine valley; steep mountain slopes above mountain stream, north and south aspect; light mixed wood; colluvial, rocky, skeletal, calcareous ground; shallow soil layer among rocks and boulders; partly in shade; elevation 830 m (2.720 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: soil.
Place: Zadnja Trenta valley, next to the upper Soča stream near its spring and below Soča trail; near the mountain cottage Koča pri izviru Soče, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC.
Comment: There are quite a few richly and beautifully flowering trees growing in Julian Alps. Alpine Laburnum (Laburnum alpinum) is certainly one of them, if not the nicest one in spite of the fact that it never grows into a large tree. Its golden 'waterfalls' of flowers remain permanently in our consciousness. Although this South European species is widely distributed and quite common, one usually finds solitary trees scattered among other trees of light alpine woods. However, the site pictured here is unusually rich with these jewels. The mountain slopes ascending above blue and wild waters of Soča river are unforgettable in May.
Ref.:
(1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 557.
(2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 293.
(3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 818.