As we move into early summer, I thought I’d pause for a second to take you on a short tour of my local park to see the fresh, light greens of spring.
The horse chestnuts have reached full leaf and underneath their canopy the reduced light supplies dramatic contrasts between bold, sturdy tree trunks and verdant, recently cut grass.
Together with the horse chestnuts, lime trees line the paths of the park accentuating the curves and sweeps.
There’s not just fresh green but delicate coppery apricot colours too.
The new leaves in the park are most welcome, but there’s something even more uplifting when you observe the re-emergence of sea kale (crambe maritime) on beaches at this time of year. The plant’s sheer tenacity as it pushes up through the salty shingle for another season of sun, wind and rain is very pleasing.
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Agnes Ashe 
Excellent photographs and a point well made.
Thank you. Spring greens are always so welcome.
That sea kale, I’m not familiar with it, but I love its fortitude and good looks!
Oh yes, it’s gorgeous, but obviously is fully adapted for a shingle beach existence where it grows naturally in Europe. Later on in the year it flowers beautifully too. I have seen some coastal gardens with deep, free-draining soil grow it successfully.
Now I have “Here Come the Sun” banging in my head.
Oh my, sorry, yes that must be in the all time top ten songs for earworms!
I like te sea kale image
Thank you. I got soggy knees taking it!
Oh dear! And what’s the distant structure?
That distant structure is one of two now obsolete towers for the inlet and outlet water pipes of the old Sizewell Magnox nuclear power station presently being decommissioned.
Ah, I did wonder…thanks for the info, Agnes
You’re welcome. 😊