Wild Service Tree

The Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis) is a small rather unassuming tree which goes unnoticed amidst the oaks and hornbeams that surround it. Often it is so much in the shade of other deciduous trees it does not even make fruits. But it can live without producing brown berries: from the roots new shoots find their way up.



Only at this time of the year you notice it is not a very rare species, when it shows its splendid golden-brown autumn colour.

Daisy Fleabane

An American feeling at home here. In November, it still has a flower left among the old empty flower heads. The Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) grows in uncultivated areas and waste lands and flowers from summer until winter really begins.

Traveler's Joy

It climbs trees, hedgerows and steep rocks, and its long creepers fall down like curtains. At this time of the year its leaves are turning from green to yellow and white.



Traveler's Joy (Clematis vitalba) does not get its name because of its beautiful flowers. Where cultivated Clematises have brightly colored petals, those of Traveler's joy are small and pale green.

But in winter it shows fluffy white balls that stay on until the first snow covers them.










Like in other Ranunculaceae, in each flower several tiny oval seeds develop, and each seed ends in a long white protrusion. When the seed is ripe long white hairs make the fruit look fat and fluffy.