Trees in parks and gardens 2010

[Stephenb]

Luit,

Great shots, lovely selection of sorbus and fabulous berries but aren't the black berries on the cotoneaster so unusual?

Paddy

Agree about the shots and that black-berried Cotoneaster aren't uncommon. The most common species here is Cotoneaster lucidus, often planted as hedges, and it is black berried. This species has also gone wild quite commonly. I inherited a hedge of this species which I removed, but there are a number of wildlings elsewhere in the garden. This is the last fruit birds take, only if starving.

[Lvandelft]

I think the black berried cotoneaster must be quite unusual..... there is only ony 'stockist' listed in the RHS plantgfinder... and that turns out to be a person with a National Collection...  and the collection is "not fully listed" and there is no such plant on the nursery list. 
I'd love to know where to get one.... or seed.

Cannot find a supplier in Holland either. For me it looked special in the way how the berries are carried on the branches.
In my Happy Traveller thread I will show some more gardens and will show the trees/shrubs on these pages as soon as we will arrive there.

[TheOnionMan]

Luit, love those Sorbus species! 

[TheOnionMan]

This morning it was mild and misty, making for some seductively moody views of the garden dressed in fall color.  Here's a miscellany of images:

1-2   View from my roof, looking down at Oxydendrum arboreum at peak color in the foreground, Chionanthus virginicus (fringe tree) starting to turning yellow in the center, and Stewartia pseudocamellia in the background turning a darker shade of red this year.

3     Ground level view, with Spiraea japonica 'Gold Mound' turning deep red on the right, Magnolia salicifolia (Japanese Willow-Leaf Magnolia) behind it with yellow foliage.

4     Acer pseudosieboldianum with beautiful fall color.

5     Stewartia pseudocamellia (red) and behind it, Halesia monticola in yellow.

6     Stewartia pseudocamellia, coloring late this year, and instead of the fiery rose-orange color, it
      is mostly red with highlights or orange and yellow.

7     Oxydendrum arboreum (again ) - we were supposed to have a hard frost a couple nights ago, but it just barely reached the freezing point, enough to stimulate added brilliance to fall foliage, never have I seen my Sourwood Tree color as brilliantly as this year.  This photo was taken in afternoon light yesterday.

8-9   Views from my roof looking down at my deck, the brilliant flame color shrub under the deck is Spiraea japonica 'Candlelight', a truly colorful cultivar that is brilliant gold in spring, glowing chartreuse all summer, and red-orange-pink in autumn. The white mound next to it is Aster pilosus (Symphyotrichum pilosum, Frost Aster or as I call it the Vanilla Cookie Aster)  To the lower right is Rhododendron 'PJM', a cultivar required in every yard in New England( ) which shows surprisingly good fall color.

10    A late afternoon view from my living room, yellow-orange glow of fall color.

[Paddy Tobin]

Oh, that last photograph is fabulous. Great colour. The individual trees previous to this are all great and the overall effect is outstanding.
Paddy

[ranunculus]

Oh, Oxydendron arboreum ... absolutely stunning ... many thanks for posting these beautiful images Mark.

[cohan]

great colours mark!
here is a rather different colour--white! not our first snow this year, but a bit heavier (5-6cm at least) and it will last at least a few days, probably much longer in shady places..)
pics 1,2 Malus two of the apples/crabs i hacked back in spring, since they were planted (not by me) right between the two houses, and the last thing i need is more shade! i intend to keep them low enough to prune without a ladder...
pic 3 Philadelphus these are totally covered in white in summer, though this year's display was cut a bit short by hail; even better, so dense there are almost no weeds or grass underneath..
pic 4 another i hacked, a Salix, grown by my mother from florist's pussywillows; some exotic willows, much larger than the natives, which are all clumping small trunked species, keep their leaves long past all the natives and most other exotics
pic 5 a native self-sown Salix -foreground
pic 6 my favourite exotic tree (on our property) Tilia cordata marginally to not hardy in provincial trials, depending on location, its been doing very nicely here, sheltered by large spruce etc

[Ragged Robin]

Cohan your snow trees are wonderful but such a shock after Mark's brilliant foliage colours 
Did you have Autumn colours?  Here it seems The reds and yellows are few and far between and leaves went from green to brown with spells of dry and then summer like warmth the real chill is only just arriving with three days of frost.  Altogether rather disappointing his season so it is great to see your Autumn furnace Mark and I love Your Acer pseudosieboldianum 

[cohan]

Cohan your snow trees are wonderful but such a shock after Mark's brilliant foliage colours 
Did you have Autumn colours?  Here it seems The reds and yellows are few and far between and leaves went from green to brown with spells of dry and then summer like warmth the real chill is only just arriving with three days of frost.  Altogether rather disappointing his season so it is great to see your Autumn furnace Mark and I love Your Acer pseudosieboldianum 

thanks robin--are you back in switzerland?
we actually had excellent colour on poplars this year, though they are only yellows (some hints of orange), the reds and oranges are either on exotic trees (mostly not in the countryside) or on understory native shrubs..i do have pics to post at some point, i got sidetracked with the mountain trip  we don't get the deep colours found in the east, as in mark's pics but our golds were glorious this year..
oddly the tamaracks (larix) this year had dull colours, unlike the poplars

[fermi de Sousa]

If going from fall colour to snow is a shock, how about back to spring colour?
Cercis siliquastrum


cheers
fermi

[cohan]

If going from fall colour to snow is a shock, how about back to spring colour?
Cercis siliquastrum
(Attachment Link)

cheers
fermi

thats no shock, its a treat!

[Paul T]

OK, Fermi.  Where do you have THAT one hidden at your place?  Is that along past your front door?

I took a bunch of pics in a local "park" recently, including Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Dogwoods, Maples etc.... not sure whether this topic is just for northern hemisphere or not?  The place is called "The English Garden", so maybe that might make it more suitable for here?

[Maggi Young]

I took a bunch of pics in a local "park" recently, including Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Dogwoods, Maples etc.... not sure whether this topic is just for northern hemisphere or not?  The place is called "The English Garden", so maybe that might make it more suitable for here?

Paul, that sounds to me like a new thread called   "An English Garden", in Australia  

[TheOnionMan]

Nice Cercis Fermi, I do like redbuds very much, but don't have any in the garden

A tree that I planted about 10-12 years ago, I bought as an end-of-season bargain closeout, it is Betula pendula 'Black Prince'. Maybe with maturity it matures into a wider crown, but as a young tree it is fastigiate in growth, now about 18' (6 m) tall, which suits me just fine, as it does not take up lots of room.  The leaves are a dark red-purple (almost black) color all season long, small in size and airy, and then within a span of a couple days the foliage turns coppery orange in autumn.

1.   Whole tree view. Young bark is dark reddish ciolor, only taking on silvery white when mature.

2.   Foliage closeup when just changing over from dark blackish purple to orange.

3.   Whole tree view a few days later (now) where most leaves have turned coppery orange. Note the bend or crook in the trunk,
     thank goodness birches are flexible, the tree always recovering from ice storm, although with bendy side-effects (also see last photo).

4-5. Closeups of the foliage with fall color.

6.   Ice storm of December 2008 where there was incredible tree damage, the birch bent right over to the ground, it recovered without damage.

[Kristl Walek]

Just catching up on this thread...

Beautiful (and edible) fruits are, of course, a particular highlight of woody species.

A plant that I am always surprised NOT to see everywhere is the absolutely gorgeous
Sambucus caerulea, from western North America.
These pictures are from earlier this season.