English Oak -Quercus rober
This collumnular english Oak not only produces beautiful lithesome acorn , it also displays this rarity colouring of chartruse yellow in the fall , if icing are docile , as they have been this year . Most of out naitive oaks here in New England turn brown or beige , and a few sour a coloured burgundy Marxist . But this English Oak at the recess of our home is the preferred , especially for cut since it ’s foliage is so small and looks great even cut in a vase .
Enkiathus campanulatus var . sikokianus
Native to Honshu , in Japan , this Enkianthus is different than many other Enkianthis species available since it has glowering reddish flowers , and always draw attention during outflow garden tour of duty here . I think that the foliation is even finer in colouring than the other Enkianthus mintage that I have , and since this diverseness has been severe to cross down lately , it relinds me that I should disperse it since now that Heronswood Nursery is buy the farm ( closed by Burpees after they found it non profitable ) , I do n’t knwo where else to rule this special species unless I feel like heading over to Honshu again ! . Hey , it ’s an excuse!which is a treadure which I puchased from the first Heronswood Nursery catalogue that I ever had in 1996 , and which never seemed to carry it again , and now that the nursery had been purchase and thus close by Burpee Seed Company, … blah , blah , blah … .don’t get me going , but you sleep together what ? It ’s all business at the end of the twenty-four hour period , and Dan Hinkley will surely move beyond all of this , ( as if it was his fault ) and he will surge higer with a newfangled vision since the evolution part of any venture is for sure more invigorating than maintaing expectations to a customer base . If I was he , I would find the exploration and discovery part of the cognitive process most stimulating , since it ’s all about invention and pluck that curious part of the brain … isn’t that why we are so fscinated with nature and plant that are authentic and real ? This Enkianthus reminds me everything will be newfangled and good and he will do something even more superb in the future , I am certain . And until then , only those who have it , have it ! ( Of course , now as I mean about it , peradventure I buy it at Gossler Farms ? ! ) Whatever .
A Acer japonicum which lose it ’s label , but it was a choice one .
Yes . Even I loose labels . But this Japanese maple was planted from seed in 1996 which I brough back from Japan , and without a key W. C. Handy , It ’s still quite nice with it ’s foliage that progresses the spectrum from light saffron to persimmon all on the same outgrowth .
Sasa vietchii
speak of Japan . OF all of the hardy bamboo that we can grow here in NEw England , this relatively doable groundcover is annually spectacular , peculiarly in the fall and wintertime , since the foliage give out just on the sharpness , producing this bicolor variegated essence . Also native to Japan , this is perhaps the nicesest of the Sasa bamboo , yet we grow another Sasa , Sasa japonica with is taller than the 2 foot obtuse growth of this mintage , but it does tend to run a number more , yet barely a pestis . … .really .
Other bamboos? … … .that ’s another story . More and bamboos on another post . If you ever see Sasa vietchii , get it .
OK , Bloodgood is everywhere . It ’s arguably the most uncouth japanese maple variety , available at any home center , and should n’t even be appropriate on this web log which is dedicated to rarified and strange plants . But I am lecture abotu foliage here , and not rareness….so….presenting , an exceptionally courteous year for Acer japonicum “ Bloodgood ” . Go home Dept .
in conclusion , a lone primrose in bloom in the timber garden . It ’s not uncommon at all for many spring bloom primrose to show a few flower in the former gloam . This P. aucaulis will be one of the first primula in prime in the late wintertime or spring , blooming along with snowdrops , even while the blow is still fall . Since it is almost December , I can now say that we can have flowered out doors year round , here in USDA zona 5 .
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