Perhaps different varieties have different fruiting patterns depending on climate or genetics. I have two different varieties of Rowan in my garden. Last year one was laden with berries and the other quite sparse. This year its the other way round!
That’s all right then 👍 it’s just something that got into my head in the middle of the night and wouldn’t go away until I’d asked the question 😵💫
At our last house (in the middle of Norwich) there was a tall pyracantha hedge between us and next door … one winter morning we woke up and looked out of the window to see, not six feet away, an irruption of waxwings stripping it of its huge crop of berries … a wonderful sight and sound 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not a problem, @Dovefromabove So many ideas come in the middle of the night. (My idea to get married was one of them, so the next time I saw my girl, I posed the question. That was in 1984. We're still together).
My reply to you is missing the "t" in "daft". Says a lot about my own state of mind just after 4:30am!! 😵💫
I've grown O. Glow in every garden I've had apart from one. It fruits every year - extremely well, regardless of age, site and aspect, and any other planting around it. The only time I've not had a good crop was a couple of years ago, when one plant seemed to have scab. It would have been in situ around 7 years or so. I cut all the affected branches out, and last year it still produced a decent amount of flowers and fruit, but there was still a poorer section, so I removed that. This year it's fine. It's widely used as hedging round here and always does well whenever I've seen it.
Red Column, on the other hand is lousy by comparison. It's had every chance to do well, but never has. I was actually going to hack it back to it's knees recently, but it must have known because it's managed to produce some berries. It's nothing like as good in terms of growth or production though. I still might give it a haircut...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
At our last house (in the middle of Norwich) there was a tall pyracantha hedge between us and next door … one winter morning we woke up and looked out of the window to see, not six feet away, an irruption of waxwings stripping it of its huge crop of berries … a wonderful sight and sound 😃
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So many ideas come in the middle of the night. (My idea to get married was one of them, so the next time I saw my girl, I posed the question. That was in 1984. We're still together).
My reply to you is missing the "t" in "daft". Says a lot about my own state of mind just after 4:30am!! 😵💫
Red Column, on the other hand is lousy by comparison. It's had every chance to do well, but never has. I was actually going to hack it back to it's knees recently, but it must have known because it's managed to produce some berries. It's nothing like as good in terms of growth or production though. I still might give it a haircut...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...