#deciduousshrub
Plant of the Day
Saturday 14 May 2022
This amazing Paeonia cultivar was purchased from a market stall. It has grown and flowered wonderfully in the garden despite exposure to some cold winds which are not ideal for a tree peony.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Wednesday 11 May 2022
ThesePaeonia ludlowii (Ludlow’s tree peony, Tibetan peony) were grown from seed about 12 years ago and are covered with flowers every spring. This shrub has an open, upright habit and is easy to prune if it becomes too wide or tall. It responds by producing new stems from the base.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Monday 9 May 2022
This graceful, spreading Rosa xanthina ‘Canary Bird’ (shrub rose) has been trained to cover this wall. With dainty, fern-like foliage this rose has grown well in this shady space and the flowers were buzzing with early pollinators on this once a year flowering cultivar.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Friday 6 May 2022
In a car park I saw this exotic looking Paeonia cultivar (tree peony) was flowering. These are long lived shrubs that need a sheltered and sunny position. I hope some other visitors to this shopping complex noticed these wonderful flowers.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Saturday 16 April 2022
The vigorous, deciduous shrub Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Moerloosei’ (Japanese quince, flowering quince) is ideal for fan training on a fence and the bare twigs are smothered in flowers before the glossy, dark green leaves appear. This is a later flowering cultivar with white flowers flushed with dark pink, from March to May. The flowers are often followed by aromatic, greenish-yellow fruit that can be eaten when cooked.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Friday 15 April 2022
In this woodland walk Ribes sanguineum (flowering currant) has naturalised and was being visited by the early bumblebees. This deciduous shrub has lobed, aromatic leaves and an upright growth habit. It can be grown as an informal, flowering hedge.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Thursday 14 April 2022
ThisRibes sanguineum ‘Ubric’ (flowering currant, ‘White Icicle’) is a vigorous deciduous shrub which can reach up to 2m. It has pendent racemes of tubular white flowers while the species has pink coloured blooms, both can be followed by bloomy, blue-black fruit.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Friday 8 April 2022
The spreading deciduous shrub Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Nivalis’ (Japanese quince) has a habit that creates a tangle of growth, with spiny branches. Here it has been trained along a fence and manages to thrive in the shade of other shrubs. The line of white flowers shine out through the stems of other deciduous shrubs.
Jill Raggett
Plant of the Day
Sunday 3 April 2022
This cultivar of coloured stems Cornus sanguinea ‘Sifa’ (dogwood) starts greenish-yellow at the base but the finely-branched, upright stems finish as a rich red. The young growth is the most colourful and so is encouraged by pruning the old growth before bud burst in the spring.
Jill Raggett
