Wine and Wellies
  • Home
  • Garden Diary
  • Gardens to visit
  • Plant Envy
  • Gourmet
  • Barnes Arboretum
  • Happenings
  • Forum

Franklinia alatamaha 

10/13/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
One of my favorites and I'm on my third tree - hopefully a lucky number.  A notoriously fickle tree with a fabulous story.  It was discovered in 1765 along the banks of the Altamaha River in Georgia by John and William Bartram and named in honor of their dear friend Benjamin Franklin.  When they returned to the same spot years later it was extinct and all Franklinias today are descended from those propagated by the Bartrams in their Philadelphia garden. A deciduous, understory tree with an upright habit that can be grown as a single-trunked tree or a multi-stemmed shrub, with dark green glossy leaves that turn orange, red and purple in the fall.  It blooms in late summer and early autumn when few other trees are in flower, gorgeous fragrant camellia-like white flowers with yellow stamens followed by woody spherical fruit. It needs organically rich, moist but very well-drained soil of acidic to neutral pH, in full sun and resents transplanting.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.