Thursday, 19 June 2025

The Horse Chestnut tree

 

This is the Forty in Cholsey it is dominated by a couple of trees, the one on the left is a walnut tree which was pollared over the winter so lacks growth, the other tree is a Horse Chestnut or as most kids will tell  you a conker tree because of the nuts that are dropped in the autumn and sought after to play conkers with 

 It was well in flower when I took the photos and looks glorious in the clear blue sky

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9 comments:

DawnTreader said...

Huge old horse chestnut trees are so impressive. We have some around here as well.

Klara said...

what an impressive tree!

Jim said...

Looks great.

Yogi♪♪♪ said...

That is a big tree. I am not sure that we have such trees like that here.

Jocelyn said...

Nice shot.

HappyK said...

That's a fabulous looking tree.

Photo Cache said...

How cool, I learned about conker tree today. For a bit there, I thought that was lilac tree from the image so I Googled it.

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Red said...

My wife often talks about conkers as she was raised in England.

magiceye said...

Looks lovely!