Varieties of copper beech

[Ajdc]

Last year I purchased 8 pleached copper beech trees, stems 1.8m tall, shoots and leaves already pruned onto bamboo frames. Received some good advice on this forum about roots close to the house, drainage etc.

 

Trees arrived as rootballs in Nov 2020 and planted. This spring leaves come out - so survived transplanting - but:

1. One tree is green-leaved, others copper. Clearly that is an error and I have raised this with company. 
2. Of the remaining 7, two trees have large, deep copper leaves and come out earlier. Five have small, significantly lighter leaves that come out later. See photo. The trees were advertised as Fagus Sylvatica Alropurpurea. 
 

So my question is this: in addition to the green-leaved interloper, have I also been sent two mismatched varieties of copper beech trees?

 

Many thanks. 

[Stubby]

3 minutes ago, Ajdc said:

Last year I purchased 8 pleached copper beech trees, stems 1.8m tall, shoots and leaves already pruned onto bamboo frames. Received some good advice on this forum about roots close to the house, drainage etc.

 

Trees arrived as rootballs in Nov 2020 and planted. This spring leaves come out - so survived transplanting - but:

1. One tree is green-leaved, others copper. Clearly that is an error and I have raised this with company. 
2. Of the remaining 7, two trees have large, deep copper leaves and come out earlier. Five have small, significantly lighter leaves that come out later. See photo. The trees were advertised as Fagus Sylvatica Alropurpurea. 
 

So my question is this: in addition to the green-leaved interloper, have I also been sent two mismatched varieties of copper beech trees?

 

Many thanks. 

We have some copper beeches near me that flush with green and then darken as the summer progresses .

Edited June 24, 2021 by Stubby