What a stunning shrub @Loxley. I have three euonymus alatus and they are a reliable shrub for autumn colour but they don't seem to produce seeds here. Maybe I should try e a.apterus.
I haven't been able to tackle the spruce yet @Fire, hope to make a start this winter then they can be sawn into logs for me to split. I'm too busy over the summer to do that sort of work, but I've hacked away a bit at a couple of vertical root plates on a very steep bank (golden alders).but haven't tackled the other stumps yet. The spruce brash and small branches I'll have to put on the bonfire as I work my way in, they're too difficult to shred and chip. But the needles will have fallen as a mulch, and I did shred and chip a lot of them when they were green. All that work put me behind though, and I'm still behind, but hopefully I'll be back on course by spring. Weather permitting of course! I appreciate the trees that I have, knowing how easily they can be gone in a storm......
@Uff, do you get the seed/fruits on euonymus alatus? Mine are smothered in flowers each year but don't produce anything, or nothing I've noticed.
I find the colour intensity varies year on year. They are very susceptible to heavy snow damage here. Yet bizarrely, two euonymus were almost flattened by the two golden alders which were uprooted in Storm Arwen, each alder landed on a euonymus as if synchronised. The trees lay over them for quite a few weeks but there's very little damage.
I have an E. oxyphyllus which has produced a lot of nice berries. No autumn colour this year, because it shed all its leaves in August! Last year the autumn colour was excellent though, beetroot red.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
So sad to think of golden alders coming down in the storm. Such beautiful trees.
Whole swathes of Finland are covered in gittering, golden alder forests. One of the most stunning sights I have ever seen - lakes and gold forests in October.
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Not in my garden, but I couldn't help sharing these pictures of Euonymous alatus var. apterus at Sissinghurst.
What a stunning shrub @Loxley. I have three euonymus alatus and they are a reliable shrub for autumn colour but they don't seem to produce seeds here. Maybe I should try e a.apterus.
I haven't been able to tackle the spruce yet @Fire, hope to make a start this winter then they can be sawn into logs for me to split. I'm too busy over the summer to do that sort of work, but I've hacked away a bit at a couple of vertical root plates on a very steep bank (golden alders).but haven't tackled the other stumps yet.
The spruce brash and small branches I'll have to put on the bonfire as I work my way in, they're too difficult to shred and chip. But the needles will have fallen as a mulch, and I did shred and chip a lot of them when they were green.
All that work put me behind though, and I'm still behind, but hopefully I'll be back on course by spring.
Weather permitting of course!
I appreciate the trees that I have, knowing how easily they can be gone in a storm......
I find the colour intensity varies year on year.
They are very susceptible to heavy snow damage here. Yet bizarrely, two euonymus were almost flattened by the two golden alders which were uprooted in Storm Arwen, each alder landed on a euonymus as if synchronised. The trees lay over them for quite a few weeks but there's very little damage.