Just like blackberries, conkers, the ripe fruits of the horse chestnut tree, have been spotted a little earlier than average this year. For the next post in the series it's the turn of the fly ...

Bark: Pinky-gray and smooth as juvenile; darker gray with scaly plates when older. The horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) of the family Sapindaceae is a medium-sized (up to 40m) deciduous tree ...