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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    Fragrant snowbell

    Styrax obassia

    This plant is a small tree or large shrub reaching 30 feet tall and 20 feet wide.

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    ‘Diana’ Rose of Sharon

    Hibiscus syriacus 'Diana'

    'Diana' has deep green foliage and large, pure white flowers that bloom from mid- to late summer.

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    Tea-oil camellia

    Camellia oleifera

    This small tree from China can reach a little over 20 feet tall and about half as wide.

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    ’Merrill’ Loebner magnolia

    Magnolia  × loebneri ’Merrill’

    This vigorous, erect tree grows from 20 to 30 feet tall and has star-shaped flowers with 15 broad white petals blushed with pink.

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    Apple serviceberry

    Amelanchier  × grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'

    This shrubby tree has leaves that emerge bronze, mature green, and fade to orange and red in autumn.

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    Buttonbush

    Cephalanthus occidentalis

    A native small tree found in wetlands from Minnesota to Florida and from New England to California, buttonbush can reach 8 to 15 feet tall and is often wider than it…

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    ‘Forest Pansy’ Eastern redbud

    Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

    In early spring, 'Forest Pansy' awakens with a long-lasting profusion of bright purplish-pink blooms borne in clusters, before the leaves, along smooth gray branches.