No I don't Woodgreen. They have been planted 7 years and I've never seen any flowers. I find they are quite slow growing too. Yours did well to survive those conditions.
I lost three golden alders to the storm @Fire. the third grew on level ground and Ive yet to sort that rootplate out. It fell against a sorbus 'Pink Pagoda' which now leans unattractively, yet has more pink berries on this year than it's ever had. Not sure if it's due to the hot summer or if it's a sort of swan song......honey fungus perhaps. There's one golden alder remaining but it was sideswiped by the Scots pine that went. I need to tidy up the broken branches. I will miss the two on the bank, as in spring their pink catkins glowed in the sun against the dark spruce beyond, and both spring foliage and autumn was a pure gold. We planted a yew some years ago to take the place of the dark green of the spruce when they were eventually felled, to keep the dark background. But I've put red stemmed willows on the bank, to sort of replicate the effect. I plan to pollard them on a tall trunk so that theyre not in the way when cutting the bank. They're fast growing and inexpensive to replace if they get toppled by wind or honey fungus, to which willow is susceptible.
The flowers on my euonymus alatus are tiny and green, @Uff but plenty of them, and they are attractive to bees.
Another good one @Loxley. I have some euonymus europaeus but they don't colour every year, often the leaves remain green, and few if any fruits appear. A survivor of the storm, just feet away from uprooting spruce, was euonymus planipes. This does have attractive fruits, not unlike your e.oxyphyllus. It used to colour nicely, but gradually the occasional pure white leaf (I kid you not) has increased and last year it just looked spooky! There was a bit more colour this year but still rather more white than I like. I wish it would go back to colouring up properly. I wonder if anyone knows why it has done this? Here it is, last years photo, apologies for the poor quality
Goodness me how unusual Woodgreen, I've never seen anything like that before.
Thinking back to the first big storm we had last November I have to admit that I felt heart sore when you told us about the damage done in your garden.
I live on the edge of a large estate (where I do my volunteer gardening) and there were 150,000 trees down in the woodland around it. The morning after the storm the head gardener was due to give my daughter and her partner a tour of the garden but when we arrived he came to the door and it was clear he and his wife hadn't slept all night. He then told me of the damage done to the garden. We couldn't go into it of course because it was in a dangerous condition. The volunteers weren't allowed in until well into the new year until it had been made safe. We then started the huge task of clearing brash. The dangerous trees had been felled by then.
I'm telling you this because when we were allowed into the garden I was quite emotional when I saw specimen and rare trees and shrubs totally smashed beyond redemption so I have some idea of how you must have felt too.
It was really odd to see a completely white shrub. One sees it on certain variegated evergreens, (holly and euonymus spring to mind,) but that's permanent and usually pruned out. But I'd never seen it on leaves turning in autumn.
Just hoping for a quiet end to this year and into 2023. And a dry winter. I know it's not what's wanted elsewhere but here it would be welcome. I could catch up!
A lovely day here, still enough to make pleasing effects with the mower......and enjoy the faint smell of candyfloss from the katsura leaves.
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Inspired by @Woodgreen , my own feeble attempt at land art. Unfortunately this scene is in the shade at this time of the year, so no great light effect.
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Yours did well to survive those conditions.
There's one golden alder remaining but it was sideswiped by the Scots pine that went. I need to tidy up the broken branches. I will miss the two on the bank, as in spring their pink catkins glowed in the sun against the dark spruce beyond, and both spring foliage and autumn was a pure gold. We planted a yew some years ago to take the place of the dark green of the spruce when they were eventually felled, to keep the dark background. But I've put red stemmed willows on the bank, to sort of replicate the effect. I plan to pollard them on a tall trunk so that theyre not in the way when cutting the bank. They're fast growing and inexpensive to replace if they get toppled by wind or honey fungus, to which willow is susceptible.
Another good one @Loxley. I have some euonymus europaeus but they don't colour every year, often the leaves remain green, and few if any fruits appear.
A survivor of the storm, just feet away from uprooting spruce, was euonymus planipes. This does have attractive fruits, not unlike your e.oxyphyllus. It used to colour nicely, but gradually the occasional pure white leaf (I kid you not) has increased and last year it just looked spooky! There was a bit more colour this year but still rather more white than I like. I wish it would go back to colouring up properly. I wonder if anyone knows why it has done this?
Here it is, last years photo, apologies for the poor quality
Thinking back to the first big storm we had last November I have to admit that I felt heart sore when you told us about the damage done in your garden.
I live on the edge of a large estate (where I do my volunteer gardening) and there were 150,000 trees down in the woodland around it. The morning after the storm the head gardener was due to give my daughter and her partner a tour of the garden but when we arrived he came to the door and it was clear he and his wife hadn't slept all night. He then told me of the damage done to the garden. We couldn't go into it of course because it was in a dangerous condition.
The volunteers weren't allowed in until well into the new year until it had been made safe. We then started the huge task of clearing brash. The dangerous trees had been felled by then.
I'm telling you this because when we were allowed into the garden I was quite emotional when I saw specimen and rare trees and shrubs totally smashed beyond redemption so I have some idea of how you must have felt too.
But I'd never seen it on leaves turning in autumn.
Just hoping for a quiet end to this year and into 2023. And a dry winter. I know it's not what's wanted elsewhere but here it would be welcome. I could catch up!
Here's a photo from two years ago.
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