Unfortunately my Euonymous alatus lost all it’s leaves in summer, so no autumn display like your lovely one for me, Uff. The native E. europaeus in the woodland area have retained theirs so there is hope for those 🤞
Another ‘not really colour’ but my Abelias are looking fabulous at the moment. Such an easy, drought-tolerant, long-flowering and much underrated shrub.
This huge one at the end of the garden/woodland edge has never been pruned or watered:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
The abelias are tolerant of pretty much any conditions @GardenerSuze and were planted in the worst, rocky clay soil by my predecessor.
Acer Bi-Hoo has started changing colour, so has been duly moved to the terrace. The foliage is a bright apple green in summer before turning into this buttery yellow colour and will later take on deeper, pinky-red tones. It’s really bulked out from a small, skinny specimen and grown over a metre in height in the two years I’ve had it:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
That's gorgeous @Nollie Two years ago about now I picked up 3 large acorns from under 2 oaks about a mile away from here. One was a beautiful red colour and the other an orangey/yellow and I think the saplings are starting to show the colours of the parent trees. The acorns germinated last year and this year they will be planted out into some deciduous woodland where the spruce and larch was extracted from the side of me. I shall be watching their progress, hopefully, assiduously.
Although my summer colour lasts longer, I do miss autumn colour. I’m surrounded by vast evergreen holm oak (Quercus ilex) forests and it also occupies most of my 3 acre terraced plot, so do my bit to try and introduce some 😊 There are a few deciduous European Oaks dotted around, but haven’t seen that depth of colour, Uff, interesting!
Suze mine are Abelia prostrata, or at least I think so, as that is the one most commonly sold nearby, but they could be the straight grandiflora as they don’t seem particularly prostrate in habit. I have no idea whether the fancier variegated or pink-flowered ones are as tough..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I've assumed up until now that the red one is Quercus Rubra @Nollie but after your post I looked it up and I'm now wondering if it's a different one. I know it's only a young tree but the leaves don't appear to be the same as Rubra. Pic taken from the web. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Maybe it is rubra and that’s just the difference between mature and immature, but I’m not very good at tree ID. This site is useful, good illustrations and descriptions:
I'll wait and see, perhaps next year it might be more obvious. Thank you for the link @Nollie, I'll keep that as it's a useful reference. I didn't realise there are so many different oaks.
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Another ‘not really colour’ but my Abelias are looking fabulous at the moment. Such an easy, drought-tolerant, long-flowering and much underrated shrub.
This huge one at the end of the garden/woodland edge has never been pruned or watered:
Two years ago about now I picked up 3 large acorns from under 2 oaks about a mile away from here. One was a beautiful red colour and the other an orangey/yellow and I think the saplings are starting to show the colours of the parent trees.
The acorns germinated last year and this year they will be planted out into some deciduous woodland where the spruce and larch was extracted from the side of me. I shall be watching their progress, hopefully, assiduously.
Suze mine are Abelia prostrata, or at least I think so, as that is the one most commonly sold nearby, but they could be the straight grandiflora as they don’t seem particularly prostrate in habit. I have no idea whether the fancier variegated or pink-flowered ones are as tough..
Pic taken from the web. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
https://leafyplace.com/oak-tree-types-bark-leaves/
Thank you for the link @Nollie, I'll keep that as it's a useful reference. I didn't realise there are so many different oaks.