Mike's top 3 trees
Mike Glover, Managing Director at Barcham, has been working with trees his entire working life and we have tried to pin him down on what are his favourites!
Liquidambar styraciflua Worplesdon
This fantastic ‘maple like’ tree is vibrant in summer but starts to produce knockout autumn colour by the end of September that is held on the tree all the way until December most years.
The inner foliage to the canopy turns a buttercup yellow whereas the outermost leaves gently turn to claret red. Out of the entire tree genus, I find it hard to beat this tree for sustained autumn colour!
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Betula albosinensis Fascination
A great ascending habit and bark that graduates from brown to pink and finally to white as the stems mature. When the bark peels, the underside of the peeling is a brown/orange to add to the effect.
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Lagerstroemia indica Rosea
Simply gorgeous! The bark is a polished patchwork of brown textures and the autumn colour is magnificent. Some years reward you with a profuse array of papery red flowers late on in September / October.
I keep mine as a pollard to encourage foliage and flower as well as keeping to a sculptured shape that is so pleasing to the eye. This tree has to be in free draining soil with a good amount of sunlight hitting the tree in the summer.
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