Thanks for posting this picture, Rosemary. Lovely how they train them as a topiary in England. I think it has put me on the right track to identifying a tree I have been watching for several years, which sits in the edge of the woods across from my condo. After looking up beech trees (there are quite a few different varieties), I find it has the same type leaf, limb structure the same, and they have a habit of not shedding their leaves. In the spring the leaf finally drops, and in its place comes a very sharp prong which eventually unfurls into a new leaf. In the fall, the leaves (on my particular tree) are a beautiful golden color. Beech trees are seemingly not uncommon at all, and are found throughout the eastern U.S.
JudyMac.... Watch the two videos here http://arnemaynard.com/about/arne-maynard/#.VdeNVVNViko His trees might be hawthorns. It's not England, but Wales. I clicked on many places on the website and somewhere it shows them clipping the topiaries in lots of photos. Very tall precarious ladders are used. Yikes. It's all so very inspiring, isn't it? xo, Rosemary
JudyMac... Here is the link showing the man clipping the topiaries...keep scrolling: http://arnemaynard.com/journal/garden-diary/#.VdeRAFNViko xo, Rosemary
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Whatever it is, love the way it's been trained.
Thanks for posting this picture, Rosemary. Lovely how they train them as a topiary in England. I think it has put me on the right track to identifying a tree I have been watching for several years, which sits in the edge of the woods across from my condo. After looking up beech trees (there are quite a few different varieties), I find it has the same type leaf, limb structure the same, and they have a habit of not shedding their leaves. In the spring the leaf finally drops, and in its place comes a very sharp prong which eventually unfurls into a new leaf. In the fall, the leaves (on my particular tree) are a beautiful golden color. Beech trees are seemingly not uncommon at all, and are found throughout the eastern U.S.
JudyMac....
Watch the two videos here http://arnemaynard.com/about/arne-maynard/#.VdeNVVNViko
His trees might be hawthorns. It's not England, but Wales. I clicked on many places on the website and somewhere it shows them clipping the topiaries in lots of photos. Very tall precarious ladders are used. Yikes. It's all so very inspiring, isn't it?
xo, Rosemary
JudyMac...
Here is the link showing the man clipping the topiaries...keep scrolling:
http://arnemaynard.com/journal/garden-diary/#.VdeRAFNViko
xo, Rosemary
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