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February Nature Inspired Surface Design Trends

By February 9, 2018January 7th, 2021Nature Inspired Trends
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Need Some Inspiration?

Look to Nature for Ideas.

Catkins are the male flowers of the hazel tree and are really signs of winter rather than spring.

 

They first appear as the leaves fall in October or November, like small greyish sausages on the ends of twigs.

 

In most years toward the end of January they begin to lengthen into the well-known ‘lamb’s-tails’ and turn golden with pollen.
This pollen blows on spring breezes to fertilise the female flowers, which look entirely different: like tiny crimson sea-anemones near the leaf buds.

 

Wind pollination is important to hazel as well as other British plants, including trees like willows, birch, alder and poplars.

 

Vast quantities of hazel pollen has to be produced to ensure that at least some will reach its small target and produce a hazel nut in late summer.

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