Amongst our jungle here at Brindabella we have the most enormous tree, the 'piece de resistance' of our garden if you will. When we first came to have a look through the house in early September the tree was bare of leaves and looking a bit wintery, then when we moved in at the end of October it was bursting to life with full green leaves and branches bursting with blooms.
The family who used to live here still lives in a nearby town and by chance my mum ran into the old man in the supermarket whose home this used to be. She asked about the tree, as we were all stumped as to what it actually was, some sort of oak?? An elm?? A weird sort of liquid amber?? He said it is a horse chestnut, it bears fruit in Autumn but they are inedible (or not very nice anyway).
We have another tree, not nearly as big, on the east side of the house, next to the driveway which you can see out the lounge room window. I'm not sure what this is either, it had pink flowers but they have all faded and dropped off now. This week we have had the plumber here installing a new grey water system (more on that another day, the existing system was quite antiquated!) and he seemed to think the mysterious pink blossom tree was also a horse chestnut but that a pink one is quite rare. Are any of my readers avid tree identifiers by chance??
The canopy of this tree is amazing, I can just see a cute little garden chair plonked under here for some summer newspaper reading. Or perhaps a swing chair?
Now we have three new trees to plant from our engagement, so many trees! Our yard fence extension is hopefully not far away so I can plant the trees and not have them munched on by the fat lambs that are currently in the paddock around the house.
3 comments:
Oh i love your trees, they are so beautiful and i'm sure you will enjoy them, we moved into a house with a lovely fig tree in the back yard, now 6 years on, it's grown so big, it's like a big canopy umbrella and it's great for the kids to play under!!! Trees are amazing xx
Such beautiful trees to inherit. Someone was obviously a gardener in the past to have planted such special and relatively uncommon trees. I am pretty sure the pink flowering one is a pink horse chestnut. The leaves should be really similar to the white one. I first came across the pink horse chestnut when we moved to Central West NSW a couple of years ago. I didn't know what it was either. It is a stunning tree. I've since planted it in my own garden. Enjoy yours! A swing sounds perfect.
Thanks Bloom! Very helpful :) Do you think it will get as big as the other one? The lady who used to live here and raised her family in this house is now quite elderly but was definitely a keen gardener, lots of camellias, rhodedendrons, azaleas, spring bulbs and a magnolia tree.
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