Flowering Tree - Fine Gardening

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    Silvia’s Garden in Pittsburgh

    Happy Monday GPODers! We're starting the week off in Pennsylvania, visiting Silvia Speyer's lush gardens full of flowers and an array of fantastic foliage. My 1/4 acre garden is located…

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    Flowering Trees in Tingshu’s Garden

    I am Tingshu Hu from Dunstable, Massachusetts (Zone 5b). I would like to share some pictures of my flowering trees in my front yard. We came across this ‘Pink Cascade’…

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    Gardens at Bellsflower Farm

    Today we’re visiting Ruth Ann Mummey’s garden. We moved to our farm, located outside the village of Sergeantsville, New Jersey, in 1995. We named it Bellsflower because we could hear…

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    ‘Sensation’ lilac

    Syringa vulgaris ‘Sensation’

    In midseason this unique cultivar bears slightly fragrant, single purple blossoms with distinct white margins.

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    Dove tree

    Davidia involucrata

    This is a lovely species grown for its distinct pairs of 7-inch-long, assymetrical white bracts which hang from the branches in layers in late spring.

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    ‘Miss Canada’ Preston lilac

    Syringa × prestoniae ‘Miss Canada’

    This hardy, late-flowering hybrid bears perfumed rose-pink buds opening to pink flowers.

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    Gold angel’s trumpet

    Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi'

    Foot-long blossoms are nocturnally fragrant, and pour out from narrow calyces of light yellow, to terminate in fluted, reflexed openings the hues of golden summer squash.

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    ‘Royal Purple’ smoketree

    Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’

    This shrub or small tree has stunning dark red-purple foliage that turns scarlet in autumn.

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    ‘Primrose’ lilac

    Syringa vulgaris ‘Primrose’

    This unique cultivar bears slightly fragrant, creamy yellowish blossoms in midseason.

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    Fairy Magnolia

    Michelia x MicJUR01 'Fairy Magnolia' 

    A Michelia hybrid, bred in New Zealand by Mark Jury, with beautiful lightly fragrant flowers blushed lilac pink and evergreen dark green foliage.