Trees in parks and gardens 2010

[Lvandelft]

Acer griseum continues to please me year round; I planted a tree next to my old deck about 18 years ago.  I chose Acer griseum to be planted near my deck because of its very slow growth (so that it wouldn't overtake the deck), yet after some years finally provide some shade, for its fine small scale foliage in spring and summer, glorious fall color, and the beautiful peeling bark and picturesque twiggy branching in winter.

In our area the leaves of most trees are often gone before they even start coloring 

Luit, Zanthoxylum simulans looks very interesting, the trunk looks more "bumpy" than dangerously thorny, but a rather distinctive tree.

"bumpy" , that is the better word indeed Mark. But with my rather limited English I could not find this word 

Here some more pics:
This Tilia we noticed because from a distance it looked like a whitish flowering tree.
There were no flowers but the leaves were almost white on one side.

Tilia tomentosa Petiolaris 1                             
Tilia tomentosa Petiolaris 2

[Lvandelft]

Luit,

see the other pictures of Hillier in the General Forum, reminds me to visit these place again. Thanks for the pictures of this wonderful place.

Uli if you were my guide there, I would have seen many more interesting trees than we did. It's an enormous park and we did not know where to look first, so we just had a glimp of so many trees in some hours time.

Also very exclusive looking was this Styphnolobium japonicum Pendulum.
                 

[Lvandelft]

There were a number of interesting Berberis too. I show here two with nice berries.
As they are edible we tried them too and the red ones are much more tasty than the other colors

Berberis glaucocarpa 1                             
Berberis glaucocarpa 2   
Berberis georgei 1                                         
Berberis georgei 2

[Onion]

Luit,

see the other pictures of Hillier in the General Forum, reminds me to visit these place again. Thanks for the pictures of this wonderful place.

Uli if you were my guide there, I would have seen many more interesting trees than we did. It's an enormous park and we did not know where to look first, so we just had a glimp of so many trees in some hours time.

Also very exclusive looking was this Styphnolobium japonicum Pendulum.
                

Luit, stay in the Hillier-Arboretum for two days 8 years ago we had not enough time to see all the magnificent trees and shrubs. It is a place you need a week to see all the nice trees and shrubs.

The tree is not!! Styphnolobium japonicum Pendulum. It is Sophora japonicum Pendulum. Or the name has changed. Handicap of this cultivar is, that it doesn't flower. What a pity!

[Paddy Tobin]

Onion,

It would seem the name has indeed been changed from "Sophora" to "Styphnolobium". I have been reading "Trees" by Hugh Johnson this evening and he noted the change.

Paddy

[Onion]

 
I hate this renaming, newnaming etc. of all the old plants.

[Casalima]

I have been reading "Trees" by Hugh Johnson this evening ...

... which is on my Mount Toberead (or Tobebrowsed). What is your opinion of the book so far?

Chloë
(buried in a 7600-word list of hospital equipment )

[Paddy Tobin]

Hi Chloe,

I can say with absolute certainty that it is better reading than a list of hospital equipment. Actually, it is an excellent book covering a wide range of tree families, describing them well and commenting on their suitability for the garden; lots of excellent photographs. Excellent.

By the way, I have a copy of "Gardens of Madeira" (you mentioned it in a recent post) on order.

Paddy

[Lvandelft]

I hate this renaming, newnaming etc. of all the old plants.

Uli I feel with you 
I thought that I had seen trees with similar leaves, and while I was not so sure, I made the close-up of the leaves. Moreover I had never heard this name before (it's not in Hilliers Manual of Trees & Shrubs 1974!).
And I always make pictures of the labels after I photographed a plant or tree.
Here it is:

 

[Lvandelft]

I just remembered that I saw a shrub at Forde Abbey without a name as well and I think I should know what it is, but the brains ....
I do know that it is not a Colutea, but what is it then? Maybe someone can tell me what it is ??

[johnw]

I just remembered that I saw a shrub at Forde Abbey without a name as well and I think I should know what it is, but the brains ....
I do know that it is not a Colutea, but what is it then? Maybe someone can tell me what it is ??

Luit - It looks like a Staphylea sp. to me.  S. pinnata maybe.

johnw

[TheOnionMan]

I agree a Staphylea.  Luit, these days a reference dating back to 1974, with the speed of nomenclatural changes going on, you'd need a new reference book almost every year

Regarding the Sophora... ahem, Styphnolobium, is it just the pendulous form that doesn't flower? There are large trees of this locally that always flower, but they're not the pendulous form.

[Stephenb]

Whilst on the subject of Hilliers, here's a few I took late July this year. I visit most years as my parents live nearby. The file names identify the plants:

[Stephenb]

A few more (the third last one was already posted later in the season by Luit

[Onion]

Regarding the Sophora... ahem, Styphnolobium, is it just the pendulous form that doesn't flower? There are large trees of this locally that always flower, but they're not the pendulous form.

Marc,

I never see a flowering pendulous form of Styphnolobium. But a friend of mine told me that he see at France (Mediterranean area) an old tree of the pendulous form full in flower. So it is possible that there are different clones in cultivation.