Sad horse chestnuts
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Autumn is early this year, but more so for the poor horse chestnut trees. I've been shuttling from one end of Dorset to the other most days since the start of the summer working on our house build, and I usually love seeing the trees turn to their autumn colours. Vitually all the horse chestnut trees I see on my journey, though, have already lost most of their dead, brown leaves to leaf miner moth, long before the conkers were ripe. Such a sad sight to see.
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Not only in Dorset Vivienne. The horse chestnut trees in our local,park started losing all their leaves very early during the heatwave this year and they hardly bore any cookers. Usually the ground is covered in them. Sadly it seems that once these big trees get attacked there is little that can be done.
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We still have a lot of greenery up here, had a conversation in the car about it on the way back from Perth.
Been gardening for over 65 years and still learning.