Autumn Foliage

Liriodendron tulipifera

Just three trees in their full autumn glory.


Liriodendron tulipifera, tulip tree, a native of North America

Nyssa sylvatica High Beeches

Nyssa sylvatica High Beeches, tupelo tree.
This plant was awarded the First Class Certificate by the RHS

Quercus velutina

Quercus velutina, the black oak, a native of eastern North America

More Autumn Colour

Liquidamber styraciflua

Fothergilla major

Acer cercinatum

The Autumn is coming slowly and spectacularly.

Liquidamber styraciflua, sweet gum, from the Eastern US and introduced to the UK in 1884
is so dark that it photographs blue in the late afternoon light.






Fothergilla major, a slow growing shrub from the Alleghany Mountains is particularly vivid this year.










Acer circinatum one of the many Acers here at High Beeches.



The Garden is open from 11 am on Sunday 20th October and there is a Gift Fair in aid of Parkinsons UK

Early Autumn

Beautiful early autumn days in the garden.

A great year for berries, Sorbus, Symplocos, Euonymus and Clerodendrum are looking particularly fine.

Phellodendron lavallei, a native of Japan, giving a taste of the autumn colour to come at High Beeches Garden

A bed of cyclamen hederifolium planted under the Atlantic Cedar glowing in the autumn sunlight.



Autumn Gift Fair in aid of  Parkinsons UK
Sunday 20th October - 11 am
Plants for sale - Rapkyns Nursery

Disanthus cercidifolius

Abies koreana

Late Summer in the Garden

Gentian asclepiadea

The brilliant blue Gentian asclepiadea is in flower throughout the garden.  They are late flowering this year.  It is a clump forming herbaceous perennial and  has naturalised in the garden.  The only place it has done so in the UK.  It's common name is the willow gentian.

Aesculus parviflora

Aesculus parviflora (dwarf horse chestnut) is in flower and will be followed by good autumn colour.  It is a deciduous, suckering shrub from the South Eastern US.

Hydrangea Preziosa

Hydrangea Preziosa adds colour to the late summer.  It flowers rose pink turning to reddish-purple with age, followed by autumn colour.

Butterflies

Small Tortoiseshell



Silver washed Fritillary

Just three of the butterflies to be found at High Beeches.


The Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
often to be seen on Buddleia and Sedum flowers.  The caterpillars feed on nettles.







The Silver Washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) favours woodland and forest.  The caterpillars feed on violas.


Speckled Wood

The Speckled Wood (Parage aegeria) prefers shady woodland.  The caterpillar is green with a darker strip down the back and feeds on various grasses.

Stewartia rostrata

 Stewartia rostrata


Stewartia rostrata was first collected by Ernest Wilson and introduced to the US via China in l936.  The immature fruits and foliage are tinged red and autumn colour can be scarlet.  It makes a fine tree reaching up to 7 metres in height. 

Stewartia pseudo-camellia

 

Stewartia pseudocamellia (Theaceae)



A native of Japan and introduced by Messrs Veitch to the UK.  It was previously cultivated in the US and France where it flowered for the first time in 1878.

A beautiful medium sized tree bearing glamourous, camellia like flowers with yellow anthers in mid summer.  It has distinctive peeling bark and good autumn colour too.
 A superb speciman tree.