Interesting Bark
This is an aspect of gardening and garden design that is all too easy to ignore until the winter months, and it really shouldn’t be. It’s one of those subjects that just gets bigger and bigger the more you look around yourself.
Walk through the woods and love the vertical craggy bark on an oak or the smooth grey of a beech tree. There are the well-known trees prized for their bark; the white horizontal marking of the birches, or the patchy snake bark patterns of the Eucalyptus, but oh, the knobbliness of Fig trunks, the thick vivid sponginess of the redwoods or the subtle green of a holly tree. And then there are the ancient Olives…..
I still have fond memories of stroking the bark of the Acacia pravissima that grew in the greenhouse at Architectural Plants’ original site in Nuthurst. It was like cuddling the heavy grey leg of an elephant.
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Acer freemanii ‘Autumn Blaze’ – Multi Stems Freeman Maple
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From 395.00
Acer griseum Paper Barked Maple
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Acer japonicum ‘Meigetsu’ Harvest Moon Maple
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From 295.00
Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’
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Arbutus glandulosa Texas Medrone
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Arbutus unedo – Multi Stems Kilarney Strawberry Tree
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Arbutus x andrachnoides Red Barked Strawberry Tree
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£695.00
Betula nigra – Standards River Birch
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£1,295.00
Betula pendula – Multi Stems Silver Birch
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£695.00
Betula pendula – Single Stems Silver Birch
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Betula Utilis ‘Doorenbos’ Birch
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£695.00
Betula utilis subsp jacquemontii ‘Doorenbos’ Birch
