JTweedie
Well-known member
I know some deciduous trees may hold on to a small number of leaves over the winter, possibly due to a mechanical reason for not falling off. Beech for example might still hold a fair number of golden leaves over winter.
But I was down at my local train station last week that looks out over some scrubland and there were quite a lot of birch trees that were still holding onto most of their leaves. Some had turned yellow and were still on the trees, while others still had green leaves. The land is inaccessible so I couldn't go over to look, but any thoughts what's going on here? Do we sometimes get the odd tree here and there still holding on to leaves for a bit longer than the others?
But I was down at my local train station last week that looks out over some scrubland and there were quite a lot of birch trees that were still holding onto most of their leaves. Some had turned yellow and were still on the trees, while others still had green leaves. The land is inaccessible so I couldn't go over to look, but any thoughts what's going on here? Do we sometimes get the odd tree here and there still holding on to leaves for a bit longer than the others?