Trees in parks and gardens 2010

[ArnoldT]

One more try and then I'm going to have a drink.

 edit by maggi : it worked!!
 Evodia with bees

[TheOnionMan]

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

Wow Cliff, that is surely super fantastic... love it!  But my wife would have a conniption fit if I planted something so... how should I put it... extremely artistic, in our front yard.

[Lvandelft]

Not a tree, but a very nice shrub in our garden:
Bupleurum fruticosum

[Lvandelft]

In the last week of June I saw in a park in Vienna this yellow flowering small tree.
Definitely one I want to add to my collection when I find it 

Paliurus spina-christii

[Onion]

Luit,

can you wait 5 days? Then my colleague from the greenhouse is back from holiday. We have Paliurus spina-christii in the nursery. But I don't know if we have made new cuttings last year. When I found the plant I can send you one.

[Gerdk]

Luit,
Paliurus from Croatia didn't survive the winters here in my region outside!

Uli,
Is your provenance of that plant hardy in your region?

Gerd

[Onion]

Gerd,

it comes from your area. Arboretum Haerle (Bonn). It survived last winter in a pot -10 Celsius and by a colleague in the garden -15 Celsius.

[Lvandelft]

Luit,

can you wait 5 days? Then my colleague from the greenhouse is back from holiday. We have Paliurus spina-christii in the nursery. But I don't know if we have made new cuttings last year. When I found the plant I can send you one.

Uli, only 5 days waiting for such a rarity?  THAT IS PEANUTS isn't it? 

Gerd, I hope my coastal climate will help, but a young plant will need some cover maybe? - 15C is possible here too and with strong N.E. winds.
But when it grows in E. Friesland, why not here?

[Onion]

Luit,

it is not the temperature that is the limit for such plants? The wet autumn and winter kill more of the "Mediterranean" plants than the low temperature.

[Stephenb]

I took a picture of Paliurus in flower in the Hilliers Arboretum in Hampshire, UK just last week The fruits (nutlets) are also quite attractive - remember seeing it in fruit at Kew one year.

[Lvandelft]

Stephen, I see there are more people with the same (good) taste 

[Rogan]

Thanks for the 'conifer' thread, I just love these trees, but they are certainly not 'in vogue' in this country at the moment. I still have a copy of Adrian Bloom's Conifers for your garden on my bookshelf and this thread has made me get it down to read once more. I aspire to have a garden of nothing but conifers one day.

In some of the older gardens and parks around Pietermaritzburg there is a common species of cyprus (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana?) which serves as the unwitting host to one of our indigenous epiphytic orchid species, Mystacidium capense. During the summer months thousands of these little orchids covering the branches can turn whole trees white with their blossoms.

[Onion]

Luit,

can you wait 5 days? Then my colleague from the greenhouse is back from holiday. We have Paliurus spina-christii in the nursery. But I don't know if we have made new cuttings last year. When I found the plant I can send you one.

Uli, only 5 days waiting for such a rarity?  THAT IS PEANUTS isn't it? 

Gerd, I hope my coastal climate will help, but a young plant will need some cover maybe? - 15C is possible here too and with strong N.E. winds.
But when it grows in E. Friesland, why not here?

Luit,

found the plants. Send you a PM.

[Maggi Young]

In some of the older gardens and parks around Pietermaritzburg there is a common species of cyprus (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana?) which serves as the unwitting host to one of our indigenous epiphytic orchid species, Mystacidium capense. During the summer months thousands of these little orchids covering the branches can turn whole trees white with their blossoms.

I'm speechless at this delightful prospect.... how pretty these orchids are!

[Paddy Tobin]

Rogan,

You have shown me the second good use of Lawson's Cypress - as a host for those beautiful orchids. My previous one good use was as firewood. I hate nearly all "conifers".

Paddy