{"id":105185,"date":"2019-03-20T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-swelling-buds-await-springs-starting-gun\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T06:03:31","slug":"country-diary-swelling-buds-await-springs-starting-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-swelling-buds-await-springs-starting-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Country diary: swelling buds await spring's starting gun"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDurham City: Sycamore and red-berried elder are among the first trees to flower hereIn drizzly rain, the view southwards from Pinnock hill, with hedges and woodland receding into the distance, faded like a series of watercolour washes: burnt umber, through sepia, to Payne\u2019s grey on the horizon. Despite February\u2019s freakish weather, with its false promise of spring, there was no sign yet of the pale green tint that appears in tree crowns when buds start to burst.But in woodland beside me sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) buds had begun to swell a little, doubling in size since I stood here last week. They are elegant shape-shifters and slowly their squat winter profile, encased in tight green scales, broadens and elongates, becoming as streamlined as a rifle bullet, blushed with purple, until internal pressure becomes irresistible and pristine leaves tumble out. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Durham City: Sycamore and red-berried elder are among the first trees to flower hereIn drizzly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-rmx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":113993,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/country-diary-sunny-choirboys-push-their-ruffs-out-of-the-leaf-litter\/","url_meta":{"origin":105185,"position":0},"title":"Country diary: sunny 'choirboys' push their ruffs out of the leaf litter","date":"January 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Allendale, Northumberland: Winter aconites, out before even the snowdrops, pop up in unexpected placesSince early January, their sulphur yellow buds have been tightly closed, holding promise in their gently pointed, six-petalled domes. 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