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The golden leaved lime is small tree with bright golden foliage in spring, fading to cheerful green as the summer progresses.
I saw one for sale in a garden centre and had to have it. It has gone into the garden in a part of the herbaceous border that is slowly becoming woody
(which is often the fate of herbaceous plantings). Trees and Shrubs online says: "The Golden Lime was found in 1898 in Wrocław (Breslau), Poland (Santamour & McArdle 1985). Now widely propagated by European nurseries and grown in North America, it has become popular in Britain in recent decades. A sport from a tree of the Kaiserlinde Group, it has so far maintained an elegantly domed and clean-limbed habit. The foliage is a lovely soft greenish-gold in spring; through summer the older leaves darken to green, while the newest growths are butter-yellow. Mature trees, making little summer growth, are presumably less showy. It is unusually vigorous for a golden-leaved tree, reaching 15m, dbh 55 cm at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Hampshire by 2017 (Tree Register 2018). " |
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| 25th June 2024 | ||
