{"id":112937,"date":"2019-12-07T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-rowan-trees-alys-fowler\/"},"modified":"2019-12-07T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T11:05:20","slug":"how-to-grow-rowan-trees-alys-fowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-to-grow-rowan-trees-alys-fowler\/","title":{"rendered":"How to grow rowan trees | Alys Fowler"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSorbus are easy to grow and their gorgeous berries provide a visual winter feastOn an unobtrusive corner of my neighbourhood is a tree so good I have taken to pointing it out to anyone I am with, and sometimes even random strangers. It sits at the bottom of a terraced garden and, from autumn into winter, is decked in the most gorgeous berries.Sorbus pseudohupehensis \u2018Pink Pagoda\u2019 is a pink-berried mountain ash or rowan, originally from Yunnan, China. The berries are perfect; not a sickly sweet pink, nor so pale as to be insipid, and beautifully offset by the blue-greenish foliage. This brilliant combination is then given an unexpected twist when the blue\u2013green leaves turn firecracker red in autumn, before dropping to reveal a purple-grey winter skeleton \u2013 and those berries. It\u2019s a drama that unfolds in three acts, until finally, in the last scene, birds cotton on to the food source and strip it bare. In my mind it\u2019s the perfect garden tree. Continue reading…
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