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HAZEL
CATKINS
Male hazel flowers are called catkins because they look like little
cats’ tails. They are yellow with pollen. They are long
so that, if there are no insects around, the wind can blow them
and some of the pollen can blow onto the red female flower which
will then grow into a nut. Squirrels like hazel nuts. They hide
them to eat in Winter but then they forget where they put them
so the nut grows into a tree. Hazel trees grow in woodlands.
Alia & Sarah
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Evergreen,
so it makes its food all year round. An ancient woodland plant worshipped
by Celtic women long ago. Climbs up and through other trees to reach
the sun, using special roots to grip with.
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They can push
their drooping flowers up through snow. They have a protective
hood to help them do this.
After flowering, the leaves start to die. Then the sugars in the
old leaves travel back down to the bulb, where they make more
bulbs ready for next Spring’s flowers. We have been given
some bulbs, so next February we hope to have lots of flowers. |
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GAME
1
1) What am I?
2) What colour are my flowers? (You could colour them
in.)
GAME
2
  
Connect the right
bud to the right tree. (Answers on the website next month)
a) Ash b)
Hazel c) Thorn d) Horse Chestnut
(Conker tree) e) Pussy Willow
BATS ABOUT BATS???
Pana
is and some of us are so we were very happy to read in the latest
Friends
of Brompton Cemetery
magazine that a
dozen
bat boxes have arrived and are to be fixed up in specially high
trees where they won’t be disturbed. Nick says
he can show us how to make bat boxes using spare wood and bicycle
inner tubes. If we’re
quick and clever,
we may be able to make some boxes ourselves and ask to have those
fixed to the trees, too.
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Copyright ECOwatch
2006 All rights reserved. |
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