tri-colored beech
- Subject: tri-colored beech
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:40:30 EDT
In a message dated 7/28/02 8:57:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cherylisaak@adelphia.net writes:
<< >knowledge to his yard in Cambridge, Wisconsin. The "hit" of his garden, I
>think, was a variegated beech tree with green, white and pink mottled
>leaves. Many were asking him where to get one - I must find room and start
>saving my money for one, too! I wonder how tall they grow? >>
Erica Glasener was in some garden in Michigan yesterday. We are getting to
see a lot of TV this summer with lightning flying around and it being very
hot in the afternoons. Very humid most of the time and rainy also. I think
the owner was Bob Mackie or Mackey. Close to that anyway.
He had a a garden with a lot of hosta and daylilies but the owner also liked
everything else and had what you are looking for. Hardy, he said in northern
Michigan. A tri-colored beech. I have seen this at the family emporium and
it is very expensive so you want a B & B specimen and instructions with a
warranty. The cost is three figures.00. The larger the trunk, caliper as
they say, the higher the cost.
This tree, going only by what the TV show person said yesterday, does not in
any way reach the size of most beeches so was a good tree in or around
borders. It would never cast the total deep shade of the larger beeches.
Beeches are found as Fagus in references.
It is, of course, a very beautiful small tree that attracts much attention
whereever planted. He also had Cornus alternifolia variegata which was still
quite small. There is another winner and also very hardy. This one has a
form that is much admired.
They should have been planted on your property by the previous owner, does
anyone ever have that luck?
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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