Can anyone tell me the type of tree I saw yesterday in the garden of Scottish gallery of modern art in Edinburgh? It is a substantial tree with a beautiful leaf colour of light green AND copper though from a distance it's the copper colour which is noticeable. ???
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I've googled pictures of the gallery gardens and suspect that it may have been a copper beech - the leaves of a copper beech are greener in the spring than they are later in the year.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I can vouch for that. There are lots of beech hedges round here and the purple ones (copper) are exactly as Dove describes
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I might be the hybrid Black Poplar variety Robusta. The young leaves are a truly copper colour.
If you could post us a pic that would be good, or phone the gallery - they should know or at least they'll know someone who does
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
anything like this
Perhaps yes difficult to say from photograph and it was as big as an old oak tree !
Graeme if it's the big one - is it the Parrotia or Parroti or something that sounds like that?
There's a group of photographers who post photos of different places in Edinburgh on a website and on Facebook every day. They go absolutely everywhere. You should check out their website and ask them to go along there and take a photo. They'd likely do it. I think they are under the name of 'Edinburgh Spotlight'. I would go and do it myself but I'm tied up at home for a while.