A Very Special Tree
Spring is most definitely sprung and buds are bursting all over the place. No exception is the beautiful Wild Service Tree Sorbus torminalis; a rather rare species in the UK and pretty much confined to ancient woodlands and old hedgerows. There’s quite a bit of it scattered along the north of the Island on the clay but very little on the greensand or the chalk, which makes it allthe more surprising that the largest specimen (and one of the largest recorded in the country) grows on a little greensand bank near a chalk down!
Here is a picture taken yesterday of its leaves just beginning to emerge.
Spring is most definitely sprung and buds are bursting all over the place. No exception is the beautiful Wild Service Tree Sorbus torminalis; a rather rare species in the UK and pretty much confined to ancient woodlands and old hedgerows. There’s quite a bit of it scattered along the north of the Island on the clay but very little on the greensand or the chalk, which makes it allthe more surprising that the largest specimen (and one of the largest recorded in the country) grows on a little greensand bank near a chalk down!
Here is a picture taken yesterday of its leaves just beginning to emerge.
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