Autumn Yellows

Aesculus parviflora

THE AUTUMN YELLOWS are lighting up the garden.

Many of the great Fall trees put on a beautiful display of yellow before taking on their more familiar spectacular reds and oranges.

Decaisnea fargesii

 

Fothergilla major

Liquidamber styraciflua

Nyssa sylvatica High Beeches

Disanthus cercidifolius

Disanthus cercidifolius, a member of the hamamelidaceae family, is lighting up the garden with the spectacular colour of its heart shaped leaves.  A native of Japan and China it was introduced to the UK in about 1893.  It is a woodland plant, an acid soil lover and fairly hardy.  There are seven plants flourishing in the garden at High Beeches.