Alan Wilton Horticultural Consulting & Training

05/07/2022

What an amazing find!

Experts at London's Kew Gardens have discovered the first new species of giant waterlily since the mid-19th century, with the plant initially being mistaken for another.

22/06/2022

A great initiative to help our polluted environment! Hopefully the rest of the industry follows suit.

In an Australian market debut, you can now purchase Banrock Station wines and Taylors’ One Small Step range in flat wine bottles made with 00% recycled PET plastic.

06/06/2022

Repost: Kew Gardens are amazing! Can't wait for part 2!

17/03/2022

Very helpful to have mature trees available for all manner of projects!

Barbara and James McGeoch's old dairy farm near Toowoomba is a perfect tree nursery from where they've built a thriving business with clients as far away as China and the Middle East.

15/02/2022

Pretty amazing what you can do with Fruit Trees!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-17/backyard-gardener-ten-fruit-tree-aims-for-guinness-world-record/100542264?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=messenger&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web&fbclid=IwAR1gMTyefIhQlAYEEuUzTHcGYd5VhXEL58hm4D5GvhnlINu0HMiU4NiHGT8

Hussam Saraf propagates and sells a variety of rare fruit trees and edible plants from his back garden at the southern fringe of Greater Shepparton. Among his collection is one tree that bears 10 different types of fruit.

11/01/2022

First she discovered the wood wide web. Now Suzanne Simard has found that underground connections in a forest are like a brain that allows trees to form societies – and look out for their kin

11/01/2022

Interesting facts to add to what i already know about fungi that live in and on plant roots.

11/01/2022

Fascinating discoveries who would have thought that trees can communicate through their roots.Great research.

First she discovered the wood wide web. Now Suzanne Simard has found that underground connections in a forest are like a brain that allows trees to form societies – and look out for their kin

04/03/2019

What about the Scarlet Oak Quercus coccinea, the scarlet oak, is an oak in the red oak section Quercus sect. Lobatae. The scarlet oak can be mistaken for the pin oak, the black oak, or occasionally the red oak. On scarlet oak the sinuses between lobes are "C"-shaped in comparison to pin oak (Q. palustris), which has "U"-shaped sinuses and the acorns are half covered by a deep cap.[2]

Leaf description

The leaves are glossy green, 7–17 cm (2.8–6.8 inches) long and 8–13 cm (3.2–5.2 inches) broad, lobed, with seven lobes, and deep sinuses between the lobes. Each lobe has 3–7 bristle-tipped teeth. The leaf is hairless (unlike the related pin oak, which has tufts of pale orange-brown down where the lobe veins join the central vein). The common English name is derived from the autumn coloration of the foliage, which generally becomes bright scarlet; in contrast, pin oak foliage generally turns bronze in autumn.
more info here

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/scarlet-oak

The turkey oak has cupules covered in a moss like hair

see this linkhttps://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/common-non-native-trees/turkey-oak/

04/03/2019

pedunculata With a flower stalk ped-un-kew-LAH-tuh

Hi, did you wonder about the name of the Engiish oak for you arbees out there see the link below to help identify it
https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/quercus/robur/

and how to identify a scarlet oak and compare with a pin oak and what do the cupules ( A hard or membranous cup-shaped structure formed from bracts and enclosing various fruits, such as the hazelnut and acorn) .of a turkey oak look like see below for answers

21/06/2015