This Month's Featured Trees
This month we are showcasing two trees known for their unique autumn flair. They are put to great use as specimens, features and in avenues.
Acer rubrum
October Glory
This tree is an excellent specimen with late red autumn foliage. When the leaves turn they become a wonderful background tree. Well suited to larger gardens and street plantings.
It will reach a height of 8 – 12 metres with a width of 7 -9 metres at a moderate growth rate. The October Glory Maple Tree has an oval to rounded. shape and glossy, dark green leaves. Its distinctive autumn colour is dark pink becoming vivid red. The October Glory maple adapts to a wide range of climatic and soil conditions including moderately wet soils. It is also tolerant to air pollution and compaction. This makes a great specimen tree, but is also suited to multiple plantings along a drive or avenue.
Liquidamber styraciflua
Liquidamber or Sweet Gum
The Liquidamber is a well known, tough and attractive tree that is a good choice as a specimen for larger gardens and park plantings. Liquidambers are renowned as a source of strong, extended autumn colour and make excellent shade trees, where space permits. It will reach heights of 12 metres or more with a width of 8 metres at a moderate growth rate.
Liquidambers are conical when young, becoming rounded to oval with age. They eventually become a large feature tree.
The summer foliage is a lustrous dark green with deep, distinctive lobes. In autumn it produces leaves that change color from yellow to purple. The colour between specimens can be variable and inconsistent which is why autumn is the best time to choose your plants. The Liquidamber tolerates a wide range of situations, including wet sites, but performs best in moist, slightly acid soil and full sun. It can even grow in coastal areas with minimal sea spray.
Liquidambers make great specimen trees in large gardens and parks where its foreceful root system has space to grow.
Two Autumn Essentials
1. Start Pruning
Pruning encourages and promotes new growth. Prune back any old growth on plants by trimming at the base. Trimming your hedges allows in light and air in encourages new growth. Get rid of any of branches that you can foresee becoming a problem in the future.
2. Maintain Your Tools
Maintaining your tools makes using them easier to use and can extend their life. Sharpen and disinfect pruners and apply oil. If your tools have rusted, apply penetrating oil or WD-40 and scrub with steel wool to remove it. Oil the tools to prevent rust from returning. Don't limit sharpening to just your bladed tools. Try running your favourite shovel over a grinder to discover how easy it can be to dig a hole.
What's Looking Great
Japanese Maples are now in their full autumn colour and looking magnificent in hues or red, orange, yellow, and purple.
Autumn Accommodation Special
$100 per night in our Chestnut Spa cottage or newly renovated Coachouse cottage*
* Prices are based on two people, two night minimum booking. $30 surcharge for Fri & Sat nights. No further discounts. Offer valid 01/03/16 – 31/5/16
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