The Tulip Tree (Liriodendron) at the top of the garden is fast losing all its leaves. It’s been looking spectacular, changing from bright green, to acid yellow then deep orange before it’s leaves began to drop and whirl and descend in a bright cloud towards the grass below. Brisk gusts of wind lift the leaves and toss them around. Many of them land in the hedges and shrubs, others float on the pond.
I can’t imagine how tall the tree is now. Hard to think that we brought it home from the garden centre in the back of a car and that it remained in it’s pot for a couple of years whilst we decided where it would live.
The Liriodendron is part of the Magnolia family of trees.
It got the name Tulip Tree because its flowers vaguely resemble tulips.
Apparently they can flower once they have reached fifteen years in age. Ours hasn't flowered yet.
Photos above and below were taken early this morning when even more leaves had fallen.
The tree is native to North America and was introduced into this country in the 17th century.
Our tree must be around twenty years old. When you compare it with the one below in Trentham Gardens, it's still a youngster.
I'm having problems with my laptop. It seems to be on a go slow. Not sure what the problem is as it has plenty of memory. I may have to buy a new one.
All for now. Take care.
Technology likes to try us at times. Sometimes problems lie when an update has happened. I love your tulip tree and especially your autumn colour. Not a lot left in Jersey sadly. B x
ReplyDeleteThe tulip tree has looked wonderful over the last couple of weeks. It could be updates, we may have to load everything again so have backed up to a portable hard drive just in case. I already do that with photos anyway. The slowness in loading up and accessing e-mails has been happening gradually over the last year so not really sure what is happening:)
DeleteWhat a really beautiful tree with the leaf shape and autumn colours. I do hope it flowers one year for you Rosie. A lovely addition to your garden.
ReplyDeleteIt is a beautiful tree. Paul wanted one because of it being an ancient tree found in fossils. I'd really love it to flower before we have to move to somewhere smaller or at least with a smaller garden as this one is getting too much for us now. I just hope who ever inherits it wants to keep it:)
DeleteLaptops 🙄 Tulip trees on the other hand are wonderful, they have such distinctive leaves and lots of colour. Fingers crossed next year is the year the flowers start. 😊
ReplyDeleteIndeed and they seem to have tripled in price since I bought the one I use now so I'm hoping we can 'mend' this one, even though the letters on the keyboard have almost worn away. The tree does have lovely leaves, I'd love to see one in flower:)
DeleteWe have many tulip poplars here in West Virginia. They truly are beautiful. According to what I have read, they take 15-20 years to flower, and lack of water can impact bloom. Here, they are usually found on the "wet" sides of hills.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to have lots of them around. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the tree will flower soon. It's very wet here as we are on heavy clay so the soil is mostly always damp except if there are long stretches of heat:)
DeleteInteresting tree and I think we see them in a few Botanic Gardens, here though I'm not sure what the flowers look like. I've heaps of tech problems at the moment too and need a "geek" to help me out. I do read, but can't always comment unless I come onto the PC. Thanks for sharing, take care & hugs.
ReplyDeleteYes, they are lovely trees, I'd love to see a flower if not on ours then somewhere. I'm struggling with both the slowness of my lap top - I can walk away and do something like washing pots and come back and it's still not properly warmed up - and with comments on some blogs and yours is one of them, some blogs I can comment as anonymous but some just keep telling me to log into google even though I am logged in - so frustrating. Take care:)
DeleteThank you for sharing your insightful perspective on this topic!
ReplyDeleteThank you for leaving a comment:)
DeleteA beautiful tree, I cannot believe it take 15 years for it to flower!
ReplyDeleteIt seems to need to be a mature tree before it flowers:)
DeleteYour Tulip tree looks stunning even without the flowers. Hope it wont be too much longer before you get the flowers as well as the leaves. Hope you get your laptop sorted. We recently had to change ours because it was so slow. Have a lovely weekend x
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see it flower, just once before we have to move to somewhere with a much smaller garden which we will have to do in the next few years as it is getting too much for both of us now. The laptops I like are very expensive with extras like 'cloud' that I don't want. It will take time finding a suitable one. I hope your new one will last quite a while. The one I have now is seven years old:)
DeleteThey are lovely trees; there's one in the gardens of Christ's College in Cambridge which I've often admired. If it needs wet conditions to flower then it should be blooming any day now!
ReplyDeleteYes, it's certainly wet enough for a few flowers. They are beautiful trees:)
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt now has no leaves at all:)
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