[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/uncategorized\/2026-season-so-far\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/uncategorized\/2026-season-so-far\/","headline":"2026 season so far","name":"2026 season so far","description":"Another very disjointed start to the growing season here, it’s been relatively mild this winter and led into a cool and dry spring. Not much frost but some cold dry days have led to trees bud breaking and then sitting almost still for weeks on end, much like a lot of the grass. Typical is … Continue reading \"2026 season so far\"<\/span><\/a>","datePublished":"2026-05-03","dateModified":"2026-05-03","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/author\/admin\/#Person","name":"Tom Tame","url":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/author\/admin\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e80cb2ba94d313745a5fddb043cda417cb7282f267795c044811e0307b7dab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f6e80cb2ba94d313745a5fddb043cda417cb7282f267795c044811e0307b7dab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Tom Tame","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WW-Banner.jpg","url":"http:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WW-Banner.jpg","width":1111,"height":280}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260422_153235-768x1024.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260422_153235-768x1024.jpg","height":"1024","width":"768"},"url":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/uncategorized\/2026-season-so-far\/","about":["Uncategorized"],"wordCount":222,"articleBody":"Another very disjointed start to the growing season here, it’s been relatively mild this winter and led into a cool and dry spring. Not much frost but some cold dry days have led to trees bud breaking and then sitting almost still for weeks on end, much like a lot of the grass. Typical is the hickory below, this was taken on the 22nd April and on the 2nd May it doesn’t look too much further on.Sychrov is always the first walnut to bud break about the 12th March and still isn’t in full leaf, everything else have at least their buds breaking althought the later cultivars like Fernor are hardly moving.The drought last year damaged a lot of juvenile trees which seems to have affected their spring this year, lots of terminal buds are dead on some trees.Flowering has started in many trees that are usually in full leaf by now but this year are still growing their leaves out. Apart from 1 tiny frost 10 days ago that burnt some little trees everything looks undamaged and male catkin production is good in most cultivars.Time will tell what the female flower pollination will be like but one certain fact is that without decent rainfall in the next month we’ll end up with small nuts again."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Uncategorized","item":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/uncategorized\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"2026 season so far","item":"https:\/\/www.warwickshirewalnuts.co.uk\/uncategorized\/2026-season-so-far\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]