🍃Monoprinting with Sweet chestnut leaves, is a reliable and simple way to really appreciate the season, I often find printing with leaves more rewarding than printing with flowers and at this time of year tree leaves seem permanent and I forget to make enough prints with them. Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) is widely naturalised in the UK since its introduction by the Romans. It can grow up to 30 m tall and live for many centuries. The tree produces long catkins of flowers in summer, followed