Thursday, May 25, 2006

foliage

Acer platanoides 'Princeton Gold'
Pieris 'Forest Flame'

9 comments:

Wildside Musing said...

Ah! The lushness of that maple!!!

MojoMan said...

Those Norway maples grow like weeds around here. I much prefer our native sugar maples, but they struggle in built-up areas.

Carol Michel said...

Thanks for reminding us that there is beauty sometimes in just the leaves, even without flowers. I think that's why I can't pass up a variegated plant!

Sigruns German Garden said...

Wonderful foliage. Some days ago I made some photos from the hosta foliage.

Sigrun

clairesgarden said...

Wildside, its a great wee tree, it was planted the same day as a rowan, 2 days after I moved here and they were the first things in.
Mojoman, this one is meant to get to 20by 20ft which will be quite big for the size of garden but the yellowish shade is just lovely, theres a lot of the common ones in hedgerows and it does seem to grow anywhere, even out of the sides of buildings!
Carol, I think these are adding important colour to the garden and all important shelter
Sigrun, I do like hostas, I have some to plant out, I will photograph them when I do. your hostas are fabulous!!

The Ramblin Irishman said...

How I envy your ability to plant and make things beautiful. Pass a Scottish blessing on to an Irishman's garden please. It needs all the help it can get.

Madcap said...

Wow, I love that "Forest Flame". Gorgeous colour.

clairesgarden said...

Ramblin Irishman, I am wishing you garden blessings, hopefully its not just the weeds that are listening!
Madcapmum, I love its colour too, I have two of them now, one rescued last year from an overgrown part of a friends garden. some of the leaves got a bit frosted but its recovered from that totally now.

Kerri said...

Lovely leaves!