Tree Identification

[Sundae]

Shaw, you once again prove that we were separated at birth. And Monnie too I suppose, for asking - although I think you are perhaps a half-sister. I love identifying trees, wild-flowers and birds. Insects, not so much - in this country they all fall under the category harmless, and that will do for me.

I bought a tree book when I lived in Leicester because the soil is so different to my native Bucks, and very different trees grow wild/ are planted. Lime trees for example - I doubt there's a single one in Aylesbury. Ditto, I can't remember seeing more than a few Ash in Leicester.

One of the many reasons it's good to be home is walking past the same trees I have all my life - there's a Horse Chestnut I knew as a sapling which is now a respectable young tree.