I bought my Aronia arbutifolia ‘Brilliant’ 3 years ago as a rather poor specimen. It is developing very slowly. Nice flowers in the spring, nice but sparse bright red berries in Autumn, which do not stay long. Not sure if they fall or are picked by the birds. An interesting shrub, I hope you can find a good specimen. I've put some photos on my garden site here: https://www.rezeau.org/wp-garden/en/aronia-arbutifolia-brilliant-2/
@KeenOnGreen that acer is amazing. Have you trained it like that? And is that some Hakonechlia macra in the pot? That's what I'm looking for. Hope it works
Acers come in all shapes and sizes @Daithi29. Many have a naturally weeping growth habit I love this time of year Same shrub [oak leaf hydrangea] - different aspect North west
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It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Thanks @Daithi29 As @Fairygirl says, Acers come in different habits. The Palmatum varieties grow into an upright, branching tree. The Palmatum Dissectum varieties have a weeping habit, and the foliage grows downwards towards the ground. That particular Acer is growing in a bed which is about 1 metre above the patio level, so the growth is particularly accentuated, and goes down several metres. We have to prune it every few years, as otherwise it goes right down to ground level.
The plant that looks like Hakonechloa is actually a sedge, called Carex oshimensis "Everillo". It can be grown in full sun, but it has much brighter acid yellow colour when grown in shade.
Pics from today. I have spent a few years developing a bushy salvia hedge. It's finally getting there - with a hard prune of leggy, woody material each spring, after the frosts have passed. I have to keep the sides quite pruned in on my side, as I need to get through the front door. The bees love it. A mix of Royal Bumble and Hot Lips. One thing I like about Hot Lips is that often the flowers are wholly red or wholly white - the flowers on the bushes changes over the season. You never quite know what you will get. I cut back lightly in early Sept as the flowers were spent. I never water it. A very narrow bed. I pot up the prunings, grow them on and give them to the neighbours, with about a 90% strike rate.
Left is a Ena Harkness rose. Right, in a pot, is erigeron.
@Fire I would love to achieve that without the white. It would go great with my fuchsia magellicana (sp check it if it matters😉) along the front side fence, particularly as some of the flat cotoneaster has decided to succumb to the ridiculously high South facing temperatures this year. A couple more years.....
@B3 - There are plenty of bush salvias that would do it. I would love to try Nachtvlinder.
As obsessed as I am with deep reds, I do think the white mixed in here, makes the hedge 'pop' more than it would do if it were uniform red.
Bumble does seem to be amazingly stable in its colour. A friend gave me a cherry red bush salvia cutting (I don't know which one). Now, in its first year of bush flowering, half has gone a rather alarming neon lipstick pink, some is riffing on 'raspberry beret' and the rest is trying to be red. A strange mutabilis.
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Gorgeous acers as well @Yviestevie 👍
I love this time of year
Same shrub [oak leaf hydrangea] - different aspect
North west
South
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The plant that looks like Hakonechloa is actually a sedge, called Carex oshimensis "Everillo". It can be grown in full sun, but it has much brighter acid yellow colour when grown in shade.
A couple more years.....