Last year was exceptional. I was specially stunned by how many colourful beech hedges there were. Going un-noticed the majority of the year Beech hedges actually come to their own today and abruptly that bright red red and of the desperate leaves appear to be everywhere. From short low hedges at the front of terraced properties to wonderful extended swathes up to 10 legs high they created you end and stare!
We do hedges very well in England. From straight-forward urban privet hedges, efficiently clipped and so easy to maintain, to exhuberant tapestry hedges with a variety of different flowers creating year-round interest. I enjoy the hedges that combine species such as for instance Hawthorn Crataegus Hedge witchesCategory and Purple Beech Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea and several provide extra help wildlife currently of year by providing berries and shelter.
I suppose holly isn't the easiest hedging to appear following, the spiky leaves are in most readily useful hard to get but can also take your eye out, but it will be great to know that a number of these hedges will carry on to develop on in Merton for additional years. There are lots of who want to see them remain and teams including the Steve Innes Society are performing great what to help persons improve not only their gardens but keep people conscious of the custom of holly hedges in this area.
Elsewhere in London we're fortunate to possess some very nice frequent land with some similarly good trees. Richmond Park is obviously great at this time of year and, while the crowds flooding in to the Isabella Plantation for the Might featuring of Azaleas, I usually manage a call prior to Xmas to see the Witch Hazels Hamamellis mollis vars making use of their good plants on simple stems.
Oahu is the quietest you'll ever see the Park and you obtain the greatest treat from finding flowers on the coldest of days. Wherever I live you will find the absolute most gorgeous holly hedges you'll actually see. After the entire region was covered with these hedges but unfortunately with the development of off-street parking we be seemingly easily dropping many of these hedges.
Still another place to acquire a view of a great Fall tree is at Cannizaro Park in Wimbledon. Here they've the very best specimens of Sassafras in Britain. In an excellent year the Sassafras Sassafras albidum will give down a lovely vanilla scent and change the absolute most amazing orange and scarlet colours. It's really a rare tree in Europe so we are fortunate to own them on our doorstep.