Trees in parks & gardens 2017

[Lesley Cox]

Perhaps of interest:

Bambus - Das Wundergras

https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/Bambus-Das-Wundergras,bambus116.html

johnw

Very much of interest. I have no German so can only appreciate the picture but what an amazing bamboo. Are they growing naturally like this? The bamboos with which I'm acquainted are in dense thickets, with masses of smaller stems all crowded together. Like this, they must be a superb resource for building materials and other uses.

[johnw]

One can't help but marvel at the outline of this magnificent Ulmus americana at the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens today. It dwarfs the tearoom below it.

johnw - chilly there today, 10c here and we're all in sweaters again, Scotch at the ready.

[François Lambert]

Covered in flowers a huge elder tree.  Must be about 15 year old

[Lesley Cox]

Lots of elderflower champagne there Francois

[François Lambert]

Wild honeysuckle climbing in a pollard willow tree.  Really strongly scented once the sun is down.  And the way it grows in and hangs on to the tree makes kind of a jungle impression.

[fermi de Sousa]

A few hawthorns in fruit now:
1) Crataegus mexicana;
2 & 3) Crataegus mexicana - red fruited hybrid
4) Crataegus seedling (C. mexicana x ?C.phaenopyrum) - the day after I took the pic all the fruit were gone!
5) red-fruited Crataegus (?x lavallei)
cheers
fermi

[ruweiss]

The cones at our Araucaria araucana are now in their second year and grow bigger and bigger.
This tree is about 25 years old and grows rather slow.

[Lesley Cox]

No puzzled monkeys there yet Rudi? 

[Gabriela]

The cones at our Araucaria araucana are now in their second year and grow bigger and bigger.
This tree is about 25 years old and grows rather slow.

This is quite some tree to have in front of your house!

[ruweiss]

Lesley, we cannot deny global warming, but we could not watch monkeys outside
the zoos. Squirrels often visit our garden but they prefer the more comfortable trees.
Gabriela, monkey puzzle trees are reallly decorative, but I am not sure if it can stand the
lower winter temperatures in your region. I remember, that 30 and 40 years ago
the lower winter temperatures did a lot of harm to these plants in our country