#thicket shadbush

[dreamlessspring]

Amelanchier × spicata, the low juneberry

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Low juneberry (Amelanchier spicata) has edible, delicious fruit. The correct way to eat the fresh berries is to gather as many as possible into both your hands and to cram them all into your mouth. Then you bite down. I eagerly await the spring for this purpose. They taste like a mix of apples, blueberries, cherries, and grapes. You can also make jam of them or add them to smoothies.

More info on Plants for a Future.

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Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) in a Blooming Shadbush (Amelanchier canadensis). 

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Daily Tree: amelanchier canadensis

In English please: Bilberry, Canadian Serviceberry, Chuckleberry, Currant-Tree, ,Juneberry, Shadblow Serviceberry, Shadblow, Shadbush, Shadbush Sherviceberry, Sugarplum, Thicket Serviceberry

Grows: Atlantic Coast, from Maine down to Alabama

Wikipedia page: here

Photo 1: https : // nurcar . com/products/amelanchier-canadensis

Photo 2: https : // www . rhs . org . uk/Plants/1063/Amelanchier-canadensis-(L-)-Medik/Details

[kevinscottgardens]

9 through 13 April 2018

The week started wet, cold and miserable and ended almost spring-like. Some of the plants are really putting on a nice show.

Balantium antarcticum in the fernery.

Rheum palmatum looking a bit alien.

This week the new shading was installed in the fernery, which will be good for the plants this summer. I sprayed Top Buxus for the first time this year and started looking for the nasty, voracious caterpillars, Cydalima perspectalis.

Nell nominated me to attend Kensington and Chelsea’s Commonwealth Big Lunch next week; I’m looking forward to it and will report back next week.

I pulled together a list of plants for an identification exam for the next round of interns. I’ll post the plants after the interviews next week. I’d be rather embarrassed (though surprised) if any of them found the list prior to their interview.

There isn’t a new plant ident for next week. It’s been quite busy in the garden and Collette was on annual leave. Nell was preparing for a interesting even being held Sunday at the garden: Treasures from the Philip Miller Archive.

I had a one-to-one this week and it went well. This year I have to come up with a maintenance plan for my areas; find options for new label printers and try to identify at least half of all the plants we’re uncertain of the species.

Friday I worked with a volunteer to build willow arches in the woodland. This was my first time working with willow branches and building such structures. Some of the material was more alive than other so I put the more alive ones, which should root and continue to grow and put on leaves, where there are no plants to climb up them and used the dryer material for places where I will have Humulus lupulus and Clematis sp. growing up them. 

Ruari will be on leave next week so I will cover the tropical corridor. I’m looking forward to moving there after he finishes his traineeship; I currently cover the fernery and the conservatory.

I was able to work in Ann’s garden this weekend. The lawn was becoming a jungle, so I mowed it to a respectable length. The Cardiocrinum giganteum and the Paeonia spp. I planted last year are all coming up nicely.

Plant of the week

Rosaceae Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medik.

common name(s) - “Canadian serviceberry”, “chuckleberry”, “currant-tree", “juneberry”, “shadblow serviceberry”, “shadblow”, “shadbush”, “shadbush serviceberry”, “sugarplum”, “thicket serviceberry” synonym(s) 30 - Amelanchier austromontana Fernald; A. botryapium (L.f.) Borkh.; A. canadensis var. canadensis; A. c. var. intermedia (Spach) Ashe; A. c. var. oblongifolia Torr. & A.Gray; A. c. var. subintegra Fernald; A. longifolia M.Roem. ex Stapf [Spelling variant]; A. lucida (Fernald) Fernald; A. neumanniana (Tausch) M.Roem.; A. oblongifera Ashe [Spelling variant]; A. oblongifolia (Torr. & A.Gray) M.Roem.; A. ovalis G.B.Emers.; A. sera Ashe; A. spicata Decne.; A. stolonifera var. lucida Fernald; Aronia affinis Neumann ex Tausch.; A. botryapium (L.f.) Pers.; A. b. var. racemosa (Lam.) Pers.; A. canadensis (Marshall) Farw.; A. latifolia Riddell; A. ovalis (Willd.) Pers.; A. ovalis Elliott; Crataegus amoena Salisb.; C. racemosa Lam.; Mespilus canadensis L.; M. glabra Nutt. ex Hook.; M. virginiana Mill.; Pyrus botryapium L.f.; P. neumanniana Tausch; P. ovalis Bigelow conservation rating - none native to - eastern North America location - world woodland; accession _____ leaves - alternate, simple, ovate to ovate-oblong, with a rounded to sub-acute apex; they are downy below, and have a serrated margin and a petiole; coppery when new, turns deep green in late spring and summer, then warm orange and red in autumn flowers - loose racemes at the ends of the branches; each raceme has four to ten flowers, each with five white petals and 20 stamens; fruit is a pome, dark purple when ripe, edible and sweet, become ripe in June and July in native range habit - a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 8m tall with one to many stems and a narrow, fastigiate crown habitat - from sea level to 200m; can tolerate strong winds, not maritime exposure pests - sawfly, leaf miner, borers, scale can be pests disease - rust, leaf spot, blight, powdery mildew can be a problem hardiness - to -20ºC (H6) soil - thrives in moist and well-drained lime-free soil, including heavy clay sun - full sun or light shade propagation - stem cuttings; seed pruning - early spring if need to remove any dead, damaged, diseased or crossing stems nomenclature - Rosaceae - Latin name, rosa, rosae, for various roses; Amelanchier - a Provençal name, amelancier, for A. ovalis; canadensis - from Canada, Canadian NB - used as a medicinal plant, food, ornamental plant and sometimes made into bonsai

[wearegoingsolo]

We know nothing about Thicket Shadbush except that it’s the moniker of Swedish guy Oskar Persson and that he just released a brilliant debut track called Definition. Think of a Swedish Mac De Marco who learned everything from Jens Lekman. The result is an elegant pop song enhanced by delicate strings, extremely relaxing and charming.

Read more on Going Solo: http://www.wearegoingsolo.com/tracks/thicket-shadbush-definition/