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April is the month that colour makes a full return to the Crane Valley. It is a great month to get out and watch spring grasp the landscape, and seemingly shake it wide awake.
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Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Buds are sometimes more interesting than flowers. This is the strangely named Wayfaring-tree, preparing to burst forth in a show of white flowers next month.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > The golden branches of a pollarded willow on Crane Park Island. Pollarding is an ancient form of tree management and many good examples can be seen on the island.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > The blossom show is cranking up in Crane Park throughout April. Fruit trees are very hard to identify for inexperienced eyes. This is possibly Wild Pear, growing close to Meadway.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Bluebells are another fine spring flower. We have two species on the Crane and sadly the invasive Spanish Bluebell is the most common. It is a strong, straight-stemmed plant with flower-heads sticking out from the central stem. On the other hand...
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > The native British Bluebell is a delicate plant with the bell-shaped flowers dangling from fragile stems. There is a small patch of "real" Bluebells beneath the "tree-dressing" oak at a track junction on Crane Park Island.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Ring-necked Parakeets are messy visitors to the April blossom, leaving carnage in their wake.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > New buds spring forth from the main trunk of a tree close to Hospital Bridge Road. April sees some astonishing fresh colours, which gradually fade as the year progresses.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Invertebrate life is starting to become more visible in April and spiders, such as this Nursery Web spider (Pisaura mirablis) are plentiful on the new carpet of greenery throughout the park.
Anita and Keith Martin (borsuk) > Another lifeform visibly emerging in April are amphibians. These tadpoles are in the pond on Crane Park Island and are most likely those of the extremely vocal Marsh Frog.
Buds are sometimes more interesting than flowers. This is the strangely named Wayfaring-tree, preparing to burst forth in a show of white flowers next month.
 > Buds are sometimes more interesting than flowers. This is the strangely named Wayfaring-tree, preparing to burst forth in a show of white flowers next month.
Buds are sometimes more interesting than flowers. This is the strangely named Wayfaring-tree, preparing to burst forth in a show of white flowers next month.
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