Incredible day here today and I spotted this Horse Chestnut that is not only in full leaf but also in flower!

I didn't need to walk to this road today but I did because its such a lovely sun trap and I always enjoy walking along there when its sunny. Maybe because its so warm there that's why this tree is so advanced.

Photogenic weather - nice to see people taking advantage with great pics!

I'd also seen wild strawberries on Sunday at Fritham, and bluebells, but we haven't got as far as horse chestnut in flower.

Local daffs lasted really well through a coldish March, but these last few days have made them go over.

Found one today in flower and full leaf... In southsea part of town...

They are really coming through now picturesareme! When I looked at my other photos I noticed there were flowers on those trees too, but I didn't notice them when I was out. And I've seen more today too. Just need the other trees to get in leaf now and we are back to everything looking lovely and green again.

after posting my pics I too noticed that most of the horse chestnut trees are now in flower or have flower buds about to open.

I've seen a fare number of birch trees now in leaf,  cherry, plum, and apples are in leaf. Also nice to the maple trees with new growth.

Those Horse Chestnut trees are much further on than they are here in the East Midlands.  We are just starting to see green on them, although once they do start to burst buds, they don't take long at all.

The Blackthorn along the hedgerows is now in blossom here.  It's often mistaken for Hawthorn, but the difference is, Blackthorn blossoms on a bare stem before the leaf, whereas Hawthorn blossoms after the leaf and is a little later.  There's a green tinge to the hedgerows now and the Oil Seed Rape is starting to flower in the fields.

Conker tree's Had a great time throwing log's up in to the tree to get the conkers down, when I was a kid.

Is sad to see when some of them get http://www.opalexplorenature.org/horse-chestnut-pests-diseases#/0

The leaf is really starting to show on our trees now and my plum tree has started to blossom.

Everything seems to have greened up overnight here and the oil seed rape fields now have that lovely golden glow.  My mum's plum, pear and cherry trees are in blossom and the apple trees are at the pink bud stage. 

You are literally weeks behind us down south, and your only north midlands.... I really feel sorry for those in the far north, it must look so gloomy still. 😄

More spring flowers seen out and about yesterday -  lady's smock (aka cuckoo flower), jack-by-the -hedge and honesty. Should expect the cuckoo himself this coming week.

Opened my window wide to the sweet smell of 'freshly tilled sunbaked soil and dry vegetation in still air' this evening - try selling that as a deodorant .

For reasons that feel somewhat primal, it's one of my favourite scents, enjoyed very much on still evenings after a run of dry days with strong sunshine. Arguably, the smell of fine weather, although it tends not to really get going until the sun is low in the sky.

Also, it tends to get masked by pollen by late summer, not that I can smell anything much by then anyway 

First cuckoo heard today on the South Downs; occasional swallows also seen in Chichester

Snow in Scotland ... and orchids in Sussex (today, just on the border with Surrey)