What a difference a week makes, the green is rapidly disappearing from the garden, being replaced by yellow, orange and red. The little tree Prunus Kojo -no-mai is a good example of this, it really looks like a burning bush at the moment. The strong winds and rain are bringing lots of leaves down, but not on Kojo-no-mai, she is hanging on tight to all her leaves and making a wonderful show, I think this year is the best year yet.
Prunus Kojo-no-mai.
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P. Kojo-no-mai.
P. Kojo-no-mai.
P. Kojo-no-mai.
I hope you agree that my little tree is performing well at the moment. With beautiful white flowers in the spring and copper coloured new leaves which turn green in the summer, I think it is a little tree for all seasons and therefore worthy to be shown this Friday.
I am linking this post with Gillian at Country Garden UK who kindly hosts a meme to showcase what is looking good in our gardens each Friday, please pay her a visit.
A lovely sight, Pauline; I very much enjoyed seeing some autumn colour when I was in the UK, the only real colour here is from the Pyracanthus berries – they are making a very colourful show.
Yes, Christina, you must have seen some lovely colours when you were over here, “they” are saying that this years colours are the best for 10 years. It is a real pleasure driving along our narrow lanes at the moment which have ancient Beech trees either side.
Kojo-no-mai has a colorful glow. Great feature in your garden. Leaves are peaking here now but rain is bringing them down prematurely.
She is looking very pretty Susie. Lots of leaves have come down from other trees in the rain we have had recently, but thankfully the best colours are still hanging in there!
That is a very pretty tree, Pauline. I nearly bought one this year, but I wasn’t sure where to put it. Seeing your photos, I am now regretting it. Oh well there is always next year.
Yes, there’s always next year Annette. It has grown more than I thought it would, I hope it is going to stop soon!
So lovely, Pauline, no wonder you are proud of it – it’s a beauty!
I agree with you Eliza, this is the best colour it has ever had, I’m amazed!
What a beautiful tree, a good shaped one too, I’m envious. I like the contrast of the purple phormium both for colour and form, the cordyline is interesting too. What unusual but very effective combinations.
The phormium Kate, contrasts nicely with the Prunus whether the leaves are green or orange/red as they are now. We nearly lost the phormium in the hard winter of 2010, it is taking it a long time to grow back to its former glory. The variegated Yucca (my only Cordyline died in the hard winter) is planted in the alpine scree that we made out of the old raised pond that the previous people had made. The garden is made up of heavy clay, so this is the only place that has the really good drainage that the yucca likes. We made a wildlife pond further up the garden, where we could fence it off when our grandchildren started arriving!
It does look great, and even better for the contrast of colors in the spot which you have it. Nice post, I can almost picture the beech lined roads and all the other colorful foliage. Our leaves are nearly all down after a hard frost and several milder ones…
It is a very colourful time of year here at the moment Frank, I love all the beech trees in the next village. We are still waiting for our first frost here so hopefully the leaves will last a bit longer, although the rain yesterday brought a lot down. Little Kojo is still hanging onto her leaves, but it can’t be long now before I find them on the ground!
A beautiful little tree Pauline. The colours have been fantastic here in southern Germany this autumn too.
It is lovely Cathy and so petty at other times of the year too. So glad that you have had a wonderfully colourful autumn too, I do like 4 distinct seasons.
Kojo-no-mai is certainly a star, utterly beautiful! All my leaves are now falling fast.xxx
The rain has brought a lot of leaves down over the past few days Dina, but there are still plenty left thank goodness. Today was a wonderfully sunny day, the sun was definitely hot, we made the most of it and went looking for Autumn tints on Dartmoor and we weren’t disappointed!
Your beautiful Prunus does remind me of a burning bush, but with much better blooms! After three weeks of dry weather here, this week has been quite wet. Steady rain now is predicted to become very heavy tonight. Leaves are falling!
Yes Deb, leaves are starting to fall here too, I must get out and start raking them up. Hopefully the Acers will hang onto theirs until they have changed fully into their autumn finery. It is very foggy this morning, but the forecast is for another bright ,sunny day.
Your Kojo-no-mai is looking especially nice and I love the combinations you’ve made with it and the phormium, yucca, and blue foliage plants. They really set off the autumn colors of the Prunus!
Thanks Peter, but since I wrote the post, we have had strong winds and rain, so a lot of her leaves have come down now, but it was beautiful while it lasted! I’m glad you like the contrast with other plants, I think autumn tints look so much better with evergreens around them to show the contrast.