Trees in parks and gardens 2010

[Gail]

Beautiful Viburnum x carlcephalum captured in The Parsonage Garden, Didsbury, Manchester on Friday.

Viburnum x carlcephalum

Beautiful shrub Cliff but are you sure about the name?  It looks quite different from the one I have as Viburnum x carlcephalum, which doesn't have such deeply veined leaves.  Was it scented?

[Ragged Robin]

Cliff, you caught it at its peak, every flower on every branch is perfect - what a dramatic a lovely sight - is it scented by the way?

[ranunculus]

Thanks to you both.  I asked Sue to pose next to it but neither of us can recall any scent.  This was the label that I referred to.

Also see this link ...

http://classes.hortla.wsu.edu/hort231/List02/VibSpp.html

[Onion]

Cliff,

I think Gail is right. The Viburnum looks more like V. plicatum or cultivar 'Grandiflorum'. The flower are not sterile in V. carlcephalum.
Look at the link, it is from the national collection holder of France.

http://pepiniere-laurent.fr/images/article/627/Viburnum-x-carlcephalum-Cayuga-des-fleurs-Medium-.jpg

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

I will live in hope that the Kentucky Coffee Tree gets going over the coming few years so, hardens up and puts on a bit of size. Amazingly, a Paulownia tree here, about 4 X 4 metres, came through the hard winter while other trees died. It really surprised me that it survived. In contrast a good sized Acacia melanozylon is dead though the trunk was about 20cm in diameter and had a height of 6 - 7 metres. I have left it in hopes of some regrowth but there is nothing to date. Pity!

Paddy

[TheOnionMan]

Cliff, Uli is correct.... I was just about to post.  The shrub must be mislabeled, as it is certainly a V. plicatum variety.  The only Viburnum I have in the garden is V. x carlcephalum... if you were in the presence of the real plant you would have met with its incredible sweet floral fragrance.

[ranunculus]

Thanks Mark,
This is why I usually concentrate on photographing alpines ... stick to what you know!       Even public gardens get things wrong!   

[johnw]

Paddy  - You can't beat the Coffee tree for a tropical effect against the sky.  One at a friend's.

johnw

[johnw]

And here's his Cedrela sinensis.

johnw

[Onion]

And here's his Cedrela sinensis.

johnw

John,

you shocked me with this name. The picture in my head says Toona sinensis. I find C. sinensis as a synonym of Toona and Toona as a synonym of C. sinensis. Oh these synonyms!

Does anyone know why this tree i called vegetable tree?

[Giles]

'the young shoots and leaves have an oniony taste and are boiled and eaten as a vegetable by the Chinese'
W.J.Bean ; Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles.

[johnw]

Might the Viburnum be one called 'Popcorn'?

johnw

[Onion]

John,

I think you have it. Micheal Dirr "Viburnums" show a picture of 'Popcorn' looks the same way as Cliff's Viburnum.

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

Re Toona sinensis: Where I have seen it growing here in Ireland it has always been a disproportionately tall tree giving a spindly effect which did not appeal to me though I do find the foliage very nice. Perhaps, it might be good planted in a group.

Paddy

[Onion]

John,

Re Toona sinensis: Where I have seen it growing here in Ireland it has always been a disproportionately tall tree giving a spindly effect which did not appeal to me though I do find the foliage very nice. Perhaps, it might be good planted in a group.

Paddy

Paddy,

same effect here. Does not know if cultivars as 'Flamigo' grow in a better way. The young plants I see last years looks the same way as Toona sinensis.