Is this normal?

[Mumbles]

I have two apple trees both still have lots of leaves on still. Not all of their leaves but a fair few are still there even though we are having gale force winds. Is this normal??

Thank

Stace

[RedThorn]

The leaves will come off when they're good and ready to

Maybe the tree's shy and does not like being naked in the wind

[Bigmallly]

It's been a strange season.......I have never seen so many trees still in leaf in December.

[Nicos]

I've just looked at mine and some have no leaves at all, and other varieties have different amounts still left on them.

I've noticed this year that most trees in general have hung onto their leaves longer..they seemed to start to go yellow at the normal time, then the Indian summer seemed to halt them like that for another few weeks.
Funny weather eh??

[Bigmallly]

Schnapppp..........

[RedThorn]

off the back of the latest spring I've seen, it's no wonder they've held on to their leaves longer

[veggiechicken]

Just done a quick leaf check around the garden - none on the apple trees but the apples are hanging on, despite the wind. Lots of leaves on the oaks, some on the hazels but, to my delight, hazel catkins forming. I'm going to cut some and bring them indoors to open. Then I'll know spring is on its way again

[yummersetter]

Same here - quinces and Cornish Aromatic apples still on the trees too . . well, at the moment. Ashmeads Kernel too, but the tree is thick with starlings so it'll be dangling cores by tomorrow. Some apples are bare wood, some have hardly lost a leaf, I was thinking yesterday it might be useful ID information but I haven't noted which is doing what at the moment.

There's something optimistic happening when the leaves drop and there are next year's flower buds really for the starting gun.

[Bren In Pots]

We've got two Worcester Permains and the majority of their leaves are still on the trees.