Claret Ash

Fraxinus angustifolia 'raywood'

The most colourful Autumn tree in my garden (in fact I have two; a small one and a larger one).

This is a cultivar of the Caucasian Ash that was originally discovered near a group of assorted ash trees in Sewell's nursery in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia about 1910 (I didn't know that until I just looked it up).

It goes a fabulous deep claret colour, but with the morning light shining through the leaves, you get this (bigger).

I asked my daughter why she was wearing shorts to school this morning - she knew it was going to be 23ºC, whereas I had a jumper on...