Plants and flowers, Stories, Trees

Otley blooms

As we reach the end of April, Otley’s hedgerows, fields and patches of woodland and groaning with greenery and putting on their best blooms. So what can you see around us at the moment? Well, ash trees have mostly still not sprouted, but our oaks are in varied stages of leaf – some very green, …...

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Plants and flowers, Stories

A Spring Palette

The colours of mid-April Yellow, white and green. If you look around our countryside right now, these are the predominant colours, alongside the browns of the earth and the trees. In the hedgerows, the white blackthorn blossom is over and it leaves are pushing through, but the hawthorn blossom has not quite ready to show …...

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