The garden is a jumble of colour now. This posting is a jumble of colours too. First two photos are views in the North Garden. Third is the Sorbus 'Joseph Rock' near the Admin building. I think I post this every week. Its colours now are really extraordinary. I'm not sure what the last photo is - it's not in focus anyway, but I liked the background. Maclura pomifera (I think I missed this for my thorns posting), Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, and Enkianthus campanulatus - both the red and yellow shrubs. Acer japonicum 'O-isami' are slightly different colours on either side of the path. In the foreground is Taxodium distichum, soon to be Bald Cypress, with Metasequoia glyptostroboides in the background. Second photo is Clethra barbinervis in the North Garden, and Aronia melanocarpa, getting prettier and tastier every week. Daniel Mosquin sent us back to see the Stauntonia hexaphylla climbing a Red Cedar trunk. Most of the fruits are on the ground now. The ones in the first photo were up several meters. Edited - wrong name, see next posting. Here's a spider web on Sorbus multijuga.
Bah, I hate being wrong -- and I particularly dislike when I tell others incorrect information. Not Stauntonia, though -- that is Akebia trifoliata.
More colors! Yellow,purple and pink leaves, purple, red and blue berries Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii cv. Profusion, beauty berry bush, purple colony of plants along the fence in the North garden Staphylea holocarpa var. Rosea, bluddernut, native to China, North garden Alangium platanifolium, native to China, Japan, Korea, my favorite tree in Asian garden Photinia villosa f. maximowicziana, one of my favorites, Asian garden
Well, gosh, if all you'd said was "go to that tree and look for the blue fruits", I'd have reported it as Stauntonia anyway, as there's an easy-to-find tag right in front, seemingly on that vine, that says just that.
