Trees in parks and gardens 2010

[Lvandelft]

A few more

Azara lanceolata

Roma, lovely Azara. One on my wish list. How hardy is it?

[TheOnionMan]

Roma, Azara lanceolata and Chiliotrichum diffusum seem most interesting, not familiar with either genus I had to look them up.  Can you speak about the hardiness of not only the species, but the genus Azara and Chiliotrichum in general?  I am assuming that neither would be growable outdoors in USDA Zone 5 in norther New England, USA.

[Regelian]

I spent a few hours yesterday at the Forst Botanischen Garten, in Cologne, where they have a monstrous collections of trees and shrubs.  As this arbouretum was not well maintained after the wars, it has quite a few no-IDed plants, as well as many rarely seen trees as mature specimens.  The Rhododenron collection is to die for!

Elaeagnus angustifolia in bloom.  The scent was like a honey waterfall.
Fagus sylvaticus asplenifolia - unfortunately, in deep shade, thus p-poor foto.  Very cool foliage!
A shot of the main needle tree planting
Larix ?, I don't know the species.
Pinus wallichiana - no sign, but looks like it.
P. wallichiana - cones immature
P. wallichiana - cones matured
Pseudolarix amabile - truly beautiful tree
Toxodium distichum 'Nutans' - another absolute beauty.  Very fastigiate.
unk fir - no sign

[cohan]

I spent a few hours yesterday at the Forst Botanischen Garten, in Cologne, where they have a monstrous collections of trees and shrubs.  As this arbouretum was not well maintained after the wars, it has quite a few no-IDed plants, as well as many rarely seen trees as mature specimens.  The Rhododenron collection is to die for!

Elaeagnus angustifolia in bloom.  The scent was like a honey waterfall.
Fagus sylvaticus asplenifolia - unfortunately, in deep shade, thus p-poor foto.  Very cool foliage!
A shot of the main needle tree planting
Larix ?, I don't know the species.
Pinus wallichiana - no sign, but looks like it.
P. wallichiana - cones immature
P. wallichiana - cones matured
Pseudolarix amabile - truly beautiful tree
Toxodium distichum 'Nutans' - another absolute beauty.  Very fastigiate.
unk fir - no sign

looks like a wonderful place--great to see mature plantings--the flashy blue and green 'foliage' you showed in the other thread just adds to it--must add some noise too!

[Onion]

unk fir - no sign

Jamie,

the unknown fir looks like Picea breweriana.

[Roma]

Luit, Mark,
Don't know very much about the Azara.  It has been in the Garden since 2005.  ( I retired in 2004)  It is planted on a South facing slope in a free draining sandy soil.  The garden is less than a mile from the sea so tends to be milder than it is further inland.  It would still have got very cold this last winter.  It got down to -14 in my garden which is about 10 miles further inland. The plant came from Kirkdale Nursery in Aberdeenshire.

The Chiliotrichum was in the Garden when I started working there in 1977.  It seems quite tough.  It will grow away when cut well back as I did a couple of times when it was getting too big.  According to my elderly copy of Hillier's Manual of Trees and Shrubs some selections are hardier than others.  It is related to Olearia.

[Giles]

Azara microphylla: evergreen ( ) fragrant ( ) hardier (  ) and there is a variegated form too ( ).

[Onion]

Phillips & Rix described in there book "Shrubs" that Azara lanceolata is hardy to -5 degree. After the last winter this plant does not exist any more   

[ruweiss]

Some conifers from my meadow garden. They look good all over the year, but the fresh colour of the new
growth in spring is simply amazing. Most of them were planted more than 25 years ago as small cuttings
or young crafts.

[TheOnionMan]

Rudi, magnificent conifers, I particularly like the Picea inversa. I can see "faces" in some of them 

[ArnoldT]

Flowers about to open.

Off to the TV for you know what.

[Paddy Tobin]

Arnold,

I am having a great laugh at your photograph because I have been watching Evodia daniellii in the garden where it is about to flower for the first time and each time I look at it I think of you - you posted a photograph of the tree in flower some time back and I have been looking forward to seeing mine.

I had always thought it was red flowered, just a stray unfounded thought I had but it seems to be white flowers which are about to come here. I'll post when they open - I think yours are ahead of mine so you should post first.

Paddy

[ArnoldT]

Paddy:

You'll be amazed at the bees that will visit the plant.  It must have some bee steroid or something.

[fermi de Sousa]

One of our favourite trees is the Mexican Hawthorn which is partly (?mostly?) deciduous and is adorned with golden fruit till it falls in mid winter. For some reason the birds don't attack it the way they demolish most other fruits!
cheers
fermi

[ranunculus]

Super example, Fermi ...

Here is a super Larix kaempferi pendula (Japanese Weeping Larch) we encountered at Broken Arrow Nursery in Connecticut.  The label mentioned the date 1960 but how old it was when it was planted is anyone's guess.

LARIX KAEMPFERI PENDULA