Thinking again, that can't be Judas blossom because I can see a leaf and I don't think they ever appear together. Do you have an almond tree in your garden?
No, it's a slightly less well-known variety of an extremely popular shrub that flowers in spring. It repeat flowers a little bit at the end of summer/autumn, depending on the year.
No, it's a slightly less well-known variety of an extremely popular shrub that flowers in spring. It repeat flowers a little bit at the end of summer/autumn, depending on the year.
Syringa pubescens subsp. microphylla 'Superba' AGM Preferred common name Very little leaf lilac Family Oleaceae
Syringa can be deciduous shrubs or trees, with simple, entire or rarely pinnate leaves and conical panicles of small, very fragrant, 4-lobed tubular flowers in late spring or early summer 'Superba' is a bushy, spreading medium-sized deciduous shrub with small, dark green, broadly-ovate leaves and fragrant, single, long-tubed, rosy-pink flowers in loose panicles
Is it a hoar frost-encased sprig of winter Viburnum?
ReplyDeleteIt's hoar frost-encased all right, but it's not winter viburnum. It's something you certainly wouldn't expect to be in flower at this time of year.
DeleteJudas Tree?
DeleteThinking again, that can't be Judas blossom because I can see a leaf and I don't think they ever appear together.
DeleteDo you have an almond tree in your garden?
No, it's a slightly less well-known variety of an extremely popular shrub that flowers in spring. It repeat flowers a little bit at the end of summer/autumn, depending on the year.
DeleteNo, it's a slightly less well-known variety of an extremely popular shrub that flowers in spring. It repeat flowers a little bit at the end of summer/autumn, depending on the year.
ReplyDeletehttp://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=1898
DeleteYou've got me stumped, Squire.
ReplyDeleteSyringa pubescens subsp. microphylla 'Superba' AGM
DeletePreferred common name
Very little leaf lilac
Family
Oleaceae
Syringa can be deciduous shrubs or trees, with simple, entire or rarely pinnate leaves and conical panicles of small, very fragrant, 4-lobed tubular flowers in late spring or early summer
'Superba' is a bushy, spreading medium-sized deciduous shrub with small, dark green, broadly-ovate leaves and fragrant, single, long-tubed, rosy-pink flowers in loose panicles