Tutti-fruity Chestnut !

[Big 'Ammer]

Wetwang! Ho ho! My part of the world, I was born up there on the tops.

 

Sorry for the derail Mods!.

 

I will endeavour to take a picture of these trees at Cherry Burton.

[David Humphries]

 

Sorry for the derail Mods!.

 

I will endeavour to take a picture of these trees at Cherry Burton.

 

 

 

Choo Choooooooo !!!!!

 

 

 

Bring on the photies

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Sorry for the derail Mods!.

 

I will endeavour to take a picture of these trees at Cherry Burton.

 

 

 

Choo Choooooooo !!!!!

 

Bring on the photies

 

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I'm a patient man Nige, but this is now getting beyond a joke

 

 

So in the mean time, here's a nice combination of Laburnum &

Wisteria

 

 

 

btw, can't believe I've never heard mention of "that" vid on your site before.

 

Bloomin marvelous

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[Big 'Ammer]

Sorry David.

 

By the time I passed them last year the flowers had finished.

 

Thinking back, it could be that the pink ones had some low branches growing up from the rootstock which were white flowered.

 

Quite a few were felled when the roundabout was put in some years ago.

 

I will try to remember to go past and have a look this year.

 

Glad you like our funny film!

 

We didn't know the customer had set up a camera in an upstairs window and he edited it and put the music on.

 

Good fun, warts and all!

[David Humphries]

Just joshing Nigel,

 

I find any flimsy excuse to resurect old sad lonely threads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[RobRainford]

dunno if its "special" or not lol... but along the east lancs road there is a cherry blossom which has half white half pink blossom.. i shall try to get a pic before it falls

 

whereabouts on the east lancs?

 

i live pretty much on it. i think i may have seen it but never paid much attention!

[Big 'Ammer]

Here you go, David!

 

As promised. (Over a year later!)

 

Unfortunately, only one white flower out, but you get the idea!

 

Tree didn't appear to be grafted higher up, but the leaves were a shade lighter and larger and looked more like regular HC than red.

[David Humphries]

Nice one Nige

 

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Can't believe I've not picked up on this before.

 

Here's the very same Chestnut from the start of the thread showing the two branches of the carnea, un-affected by the Horse Chestnut leaf minor.

 

I'm sure that carnea is probably known to have a resistance, but I bet that threre's not many examples of this on the same tree.

 

The carnea leaves do have Guignardia leaf blotch though.

 

Some gumph on host plants for Cameraria.....

 

Forest Research - Host plants of Horse chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella)

 

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Edited July 19, 2010 by Monkey-D

[josharb87]

so is it the tutti-fruity leaves that ar looking healthier? the chestnuts over here dont appear to be suffering from eithtr leaf minor or bleeding canker . .