I have this very nice tree in my front garden. I have no idea what tree it is but it produces very nice white blossoms, almost like white bleeding hearts. I don't do anything for this tree other than water it in the summer and it gets plant food with the rest of the garden in the spring but I'm kind of curious what type of tree it is and if I should be trimming it and if I should expect it to get any bigger. Tree in front garden ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden ) White blossoms on front yard tree ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden )
It looks like a white Wisteria to me. If so, it is a vine that is easily trained into tree form, as yours is. It won't get much bigger (taller) and if it's a bit too wide, you can judiciously prune it after blooming. It is beautiful, and you are obviously doing everything right to keep it happy!
Just a guess..... Brouwer's Beauty Lily Of The Valley? 'Pieris x Brouwer's Beauty' http://www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/p ... valley.php
Hmm, thanks for the answers! I've looked all of them up on Google. It looks like the Brouwer's Beauty Lily Of The Valley and the Japonese Andromeda are very close to being the same plant on some of the web sites I looked at so they must be in the same family. Some of the green leaves do turn red but not overly so, it does not look like a burning bush. I don't think its a white wisteria. The description I read said it was fragrant. I had to go up to it and stick my nose right in there to smell it. Its not an overpowering fragrance, not unpleasant, not really anything. You have to be right in it as opposed to my lilac that I can smell when I'm several feet away from it. The leaves stay on year round, kind of like my rhododendrons and the Brouwer's Beauty Lily Of The Valley and Japanese Andromeda both said they're from the rhodo family. The flowers look very similar to what's on my tree, though I guess the proper term is a shrub, though clearly its a shrub that got a little tall! Descriptions on both say they grow 5' to 8' and I'd say mine is on the higher end of that. Here's a photo of it in May 2009. I was mostly trying to show how badly overgrown with weeds the garden was. Finally got that under control a few months after this photo, but it does show the red coming out on the leaves and the white flowers are still blooming. I'd say the tree/shrub is a little taller and a lot more wider. I kind of think its the Japanese Andromeda or something very similar in the same family. Tree in front garden. Japanese Andromeda? ( photo / image / picture from whistler's Garden )
Your tree looks exactly like my own Pieris Japonica Whistler. Mine is in flower at the moment and even the flowers are the same as yours. The new leaves either turn pink or red in May and then fade to green.Here's a pic of mine last May. Here are what the flowers look like.
Now I have more time. Just came back from a Yanni concert. I have two Japanese Andromeda that flower in the spring with red leaves to follow. The larger one is about 6-7 ft tall and has a spread of 7 feet planted in 1992. The smaller one is about 5 feet tall and about as wide planted 1997. The larger bush one routinely has smaller plants around it started from seed. These I liberally spread about the yard. Jerry
Its a nice tree and I now that I know what I have and have read more about it I think we're going to have to shape it in the fall. Unfortunately my husband sold our hedge trimmer a couple of years ago....
Hi Whistler, i think Eileen is correct about it being "Pieris japonica",..i was give two of them some time back but only really caught my eye last year when there were more leaves and they started changing colour,..then flowered just like yours and Eileen's. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden )
WOW... a really nice tree (shrub). I sometimes see it for sale at garden centers, but somehow I never felt it was THAT attractive. But I will get one. CALIN
Is there something wrong with the 'I like?' I keep clicking Phillips' photo of this plant, and it keeps saying that only Chocolate likes it. Or, as usual, am I forgetting something?
Hi Nicole, strange goings on!,..i was notified that you had given me a seed,..but when i clicked the link there was nothing there,..as for Chocolate,lol,..gremlins in the works. Calin, when i was first given the two Pieris japonica,..i presumed they were Photinia fraseri,'Red Robin',shown below. Photinia fraseri,'Red Robin'. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Compared to Pieris japonica below,..and just starting to flower,..picture taken 10 mins ago!. Pieris japonica ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden ) Nichole,..no problem with taking cuttings,..using young cuttings,..one taken last summer. ( photo / image / picture from Philip Nulty's Garden )
