Where are all the horse chestnuts?

No, I've got some conkers and acorns growing in pots from this years crop.  Hope your trees are healthy, some chestnuts aren't unfortunately.

Don't see any reason for their scarcity. We've just returned from France and they were everywhere and they've had slightly worse growing conditions, weather wise, than we have. Plenty on trees around here.

Seem to be normal crop in East Norfolk

Plenty on the ground round here some quite large ,even though trees diseased

They would all have been collected when we were young

sweet chestnuts are plentifull and bigger than last year,and numerouse are several centuries old 

We've just got back from a week away, and we almost had to dig our way into our drive way for all the conkers that had fallen while we were away

Well, you obviously have your answer,Nav. Everywhere apart from near you!

Plenty here in Dumfries, Rowans and Hawthorns are also loaded with berries. There was a professor from Newcastle university on the local news who's investigating an infestation by the caterpillars of moths that are causing damage to the Horse Chesnut trees. Perhaps the trees around OPs have been affected.

Plenty around here too, including the one which fell on my head this morning as I walked through our local churchyard!

There are sweet chestnuts, but they don't reach anything like the size they used to do when we were young -- when we picked masses of them, and used to spend long evenings around the fire roasting them.  Now they are tiny things with no flesh once the skin is removed.

Now the hazel nuts are a different matter - huge things, which are twice as big as they used to be when I was young.  I picked a few up today on a walk down the lane into the town.

When walking the fields with Alfie, I've noticed them in abundance. Agree, sweet chestnuts, though prolific are very small, not worth pricking your fingers to get at them......

There was a professor from Newcastle university on the local news who's investigating an infestation by the caterpillars of moths that are causing damage to the Horse Chesnut trees. Perhaps the trees around OPs have been affected.

Most of the trees round these parts are infected, it doesn't effect the tree itself but result in less and smaller conkers. Still plenty about though.

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