Trees in parks and gardens 2011

[Giles]

..both the zenii and amoena were bought as grafted plants, and have never set seed with me.
Here a sieboldii, I think it must be a tetraploid one as it looks rather wonderful..

[johnw]

Giles  - Very lovely sieboldiis you've posted. I especilly like 'Ursula Grau'.

re: the obovata should it not have red petioles?  Attached one I grew from seed - a cross of tripetala x obovata and you can see it has inherited the red petioles of obovata. It is already a whopping big plant with 75cm. long leaves and skyward bound.  I reckon these big leafers must be enjoyed as youngsters as all too soon the flowers are up at canopy level.

johnw

[arillady]

Luit David does give us some laughs so I do not mind the ribbing.
Thanks for finding it so easily Luit I know the trunk was distinctive but don't remember why. Will have to search out photos of the trip and see if I took any photos.
Now to write the name somewhere - safe!!

[Giles]

.....don't get me worried, John.......
Here - M. x wieseneri
(Flowers about 6" across, fantastic fragrance, plant still no more than about 3'6" tall).

[Lvandelft]

Many shrubs flower 2 to 3 weeks earlier than last year:

Choisia ternata Aztec Pearl                   
Exochorda × macrantha The Bride
Syringa x persica Alba

[johnw]

Luit - The Bride is lovely. I wonder why it is so hard to find in North America.

johnw

[Lvandelft]

John, when I acquired it I just had seen it first time in a garden. Now I see them in many places here. They are even used in a part of Keukenhof Flower Garden between many various bulbs, from Muscari, Frits., tulips, Narcissus etc. etc. which looks very nice.
I think they are cultivated enough here to export them??

[Kristl Walek]

John, when I acquired it I just had seen it first time in a garden.
I think they are cultivated enough here to export them??

I've raised many of these from seed over the years---an easy warm germinator and comes amazingly true.
The one I grew this winter is in fact large enough already to go into the garden next week.

[johnw]

John, when I acquired it I just had seen it first time in a garden. Now I see them in many places here. They are even used in a part of Keukenhof Flower Garden between many various bulbs, from Muscari, Frits., tulips, Narcissus etc. etc. which looks very nice.
I think they are cultivated enough here to export them??

Luit  - The first time I saw it a Newfoundland customer had brought one back from France and asked me to source it.  We imported about 500 from Holland and they sold in a flash. Everyone has been screaming for it ever since but nobody has bothered to propagate it over here.

johnw - grey, dark, 6c and horrendously damp and chilly.  Much the same for the week. The early Magnolias are almost fully out.

[johnw]

comes amazingly true.

Kristl - Missed this.  Unfortunately they want The Bride and nothing else will do. I don't know why a name is so necessary for plants to sell in a garden centre but seedlings are a hard sell for them.  You will drive down a street here in a few days and ehouse after house has Magnolia x soulangeana, yet there are so many other good ones, in fact better ones with cleaner colours. Same with Rhododendron PJM, better coloured ones are out there but no they want PJM. Maddening.

johnw

[johnw]

Very strange, Skimmia japonica v. reevesiana is billed as a winter flowering evergreen shrub and performs as such in the UK and in BC.  Here all the flower buds have come through the winter unscathed and yet they have a week or more to go before they open.  If we have a very brief January thaw they try to open and subsequently get frozen off when serious cold returns.  If we have a long autumn well into January and then the cold comes or if the cold comes early and stays then they flower in May. Puzzling. Has anyone else observed this?

johnw

[Giles]

Another (better) Magnolia x wieseneri, a M. acuminata subchordata, and my all time favourite Magnolia wilsonii (nice fragrance,nice foliage too.)

[johnw]

A superb x wieseneri Giles. Nothing beats it for the fragrance of the tropics and so hard to describe.  Can you imagine one with a thousand flowers?

johnw

[Giles]

 

[Maggi Young]

A superb x wieseneri Giles. Nothing beats it for the fragrance of the tropics and so hard to describe.  Can you imagine one with a thousand flowers?

johnw

Holy moly! I'd be grateful for one! Stunning shape ....where IS our scent button?