Early Spring Look At Frans Fontaine Hornbeam Trees - April 2025

At the bottom of my 2025 to-do list post, someone posted this comment - asking to see the latest with our Frans Fontaine European Hornbeam trees:

The last update I showed on this row of eight columnar trees was in November of 2024 when they were still holding onto their Fall leaves all the way to November 30th. 

I wrote a post in 2022 that showed the full history of these Frans Fontaine Columnar Hornbeams (to that date) including their planting in 2018.   

That makes 2025 their eight growing season ('18, '19, '20, '21, '22, '23, '24 and now '25).  They've grown from (in 2018) two-inch (2") caliper trees that barely peeked over the top of our six-foot-tall fence.  To today - where they're providing the full screening we've always wanted.  

Today, they're not doing that much screening, though.  

They're getting ready to break bud and leaf out.  But, right now, they're mostly bare.  Below are a few photos - showing the trees, their buds and how much height they've put on.  If you look closely, you'll see that they're still holding on to a few remaining leaves from last season.