MAY BLOSSOM (CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA) IN FLOWER
The May blossoms (Crataegus monogyna, or Common Hawthorn) are most definitely blooming as well as the Japanese flowering cherries, the apple blossoms, and so on. I noticed that as I crawled along for a while in heavy traffic today after visiting my favourite café and the RHS centre in Harlow Carr. It's time too, considering that in two days it will be June!
There's always one tree on my way home from Harlow Carr, close to a road on a busy dual carriageway in Eccleshill, Bradford, that fascinates me and I've never yet been able to identify it. It has the most perfect lollipop shape and I think it is a kind of Sorbus although it is not the common Mountain Ash, Sorbus aucuparia, as it has the wrong leaf shape. This is the first time I have seen it in bloom and it is covered in lovely white blossoms against bluish-grey rather rounded leaves.
Another tree that I saw and looking rather spectacular in someone's garden is Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum'. If you have limited space for a tree in your garden, this might be the one for you. Or you might like my favourite, Acer Griseum. For my own small garden, which I have had now for over 3 years, I have chosen Prunus avium 'Stella' - Gisella 5.
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There's always one tree on my way home from Harlow Carr, close to a road on a busy dual carriageway in Eccleshill, Bradford, that fascinates me and I've never yet been able to identify it. It has the most perfect lollipop shape and I think it is a kind of Sorbus although it is not the common Mountain Ash, Sorbus aucuparia, as it has the wrong leaf shape. This is the first time I have seen it in bloom and it is covered in lovely white blossoms against bluish-grey rather rounded leaves.
Another tree that I saw and looking rather spectacular in someone's garden is Acer pseudoplatanus 'Brilliantissimum'. If you have limited space for a tree in your garden, this might be the one for you. Or you might like my favourite, Acer Griseum. For my own small garden, which I have had now for over 3 years, I have chosen Prunus avium 'Stella' - Gisella 5.