Cotoneaster sternianus has been hard pruned
Highdown Gardens near Worthing, West Sussex.
An early season stroll on a rare sunny morning, following yet another night of heavy rain. The gardens was muddy in places, and areas of lawn were roped off to allow the grass to recover from the relentless waterlogging.
But the birds were singing their hearts out. Flowering cherries and Malus were bursting with bloom. Staphylea trees ... some tulips ... Euphorbias ... Primulas ... spring Cyclamen ... Leucojum. It won't be long before the ancient Cercis blooms ... it's covered in buds. And I will be interested to see how their Eremurus experiment does (still under fleece wraps) ... Eremurus can be tricky at the best of times.
Cotoneaster is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to the Palaearctic region (temperate Asia, Europe, north Africa), with a strong concentration of diversity in the genus in the mountains of southwestern China and the Himalayas.
Cotoneasters are very popular garden shrubs, grown for their attractive habit and decorative fruit. There are a number of species, plus numerous hybrids and cultivars. Some cultivars are of known parentage, while others are of mixed or unknown heritage.
Cotoneaster franchetii (Franchet's cotoneaster or orange cotoneaster) is a species of Cotoneaster native to southwestern China, in the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan, and also in adjacent northern Myanmar and northern Thailand.
There are two accepted forms of this species, plus a third one ... Cotoneaster sternianus ... which is still undecided. Some authors include it as Cotoneaster franchetii var. sternianus, although more often, this is treated as a distinct species, Cotoneaster sternianus. As Cotoneaster sternianus it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Cotoneaster sternianus has been hard pruned
Highdown Gardens near Worthing, West Sussex.
An early season stroll on a rare sunny morning, following yet another night of heavy rain. The gardens was muddy in places, and areas of lawn were roped off to allow the grass to recover from the relentless waterlogging.
But the birds were singing their hearts out. Flowering cherries and Malus were bursting with bloom. Staphylea trees ... some tulips ... Euphorbias ... Primulas ... spring Cyclamen ... Leucojum. It won't be long before the ancient Cercis blooms ... it's covered in buds. And I will be interested to see how their Eremurus experiment does (still under fleece wraps) ... Eremurus can be tricky at the best of times.
Cotoneaster is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to the Palaearctic region (temperate Asia, Europe, north Africa), with a strong concentration of diversity in the genus in the mountains of southwestern China and the Himalayas.
Cotoneasters are very popular garden shrubs, grown for their attractive habit and decorative fruit. There are a number of species, plus numerous hybrids and cultivars. Some cultivars are of known parentage, while others are of mixed or unknown heritage.
Cotoneaster franchetii (Franchet's cotoneaster or orange cotoneaster) is a species of Cotoneaster native to southwestern China, in the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan, and also in adjacent northern Myanmar and northern Thailand.
There are two accepted forms of this species, plus a third one ... Cotoneaster sternianus ... which is still undecided. Some authors include it as Cotoneaster franchetii var. sternianus, although more often, this is treated as a distinct species, Cotoneaster sternianus. As Cotoneaster sternianus it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.