Super, super.
Clement

Hi
Your dapne burkwoodii looks more like a variegated Euphorbia to me.
Lovely pics, bark can be a forgooten element when it comes to interest.

Regards chris.
Oh, id you require Red dahlia.

Fantastic. Really enjoyed this tour! Will look again and again.
Richard

The flower you need an ID on is a dahlia. Thank you for a walk through your arboretum. Nice way to start the Sunday with my fav mug full of hot coffee in hand.

I smiled because several of your photo subjects are some of my fairly recent acquisitions. IE,the China Snow Peking lilac. Another, the weeping Katsura. In fact, I grafted that one myself two winters ago. It is ready to be planted come spring.

I laughed out loud at your comment to the 'mapler haters' and appreciated the photographs pointing out how structure and bark are important aspects of the whole tree package.

Yep amazing. Thanks for sharing dude. It is really, really, good stuff!

Dax

Beautiful of course.

Unless there's some unidentified vine growing at the base, that Chinese elm has RED-colored seeds! Mine doesn't have that -- just pale, papery green-yellow seeds...

Way to go whaas.

Great thread.

Daphne x burkwoodii 'Carole Mackie'

Dave

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It is so wonderful to see really good trees growing just as they should, and not squeezed in and pruned within an inch of their lives. It's kind of like going to a mall pet shop and then watching the Westminster Dog Show.

This is my favorite part of this forum, when people like you post beautiful pictures of their trees. Thank you for sharing them with all of us. It's a real privilege.

And your daughter is absolutely precious!

Very Nice... fall is my favorite time of the year. I need a few more trees with strong orange or red fall color... everything here is yellow. We definitely need more threads like this in the future!

Thanks for sharing!!

My favorite post of the fall season (by a long shot!) but I am disappointed there were not more pics. Serious.

Thanks for sharing with us =)

John

Yes, a Daphne. No variegated Euphorbia that looks like that would be hardy in Chicago.

Nice set of pictures...thanks! I must wonder whether some of these could have benefited from more aggressive pruning when they were small.

All, thanks for taking some time to look at the pics! The credit surely goes to the fine folks who take pride in keeping those grounds pristine.

Look forward to seeing fall pics in the coming weeks!

I am speechless. I am dying to go to this BG and your photos are making me wish that I could go tomorrow. Thank you for some delicious eye candy and inspiration!

Nice, great pictures!

vince

Lovely! I haven't been to the Chicago Botanical Gardens in years - not since I was knee-high to a grasshopper! The Morton Arboretum has some nice trees, but I always liked the landscape design at the Chicago Botanical Gardens. I've got to get up there SOMEtime!

Thank you Will for a nice tour. Much appreciated.
Mike

Love that Pinus bungeana shot - I wish I had planted one 20 or 30 years ago so it would look like that one now!

I had no idea that a Syringa would have such a great bark. Never been a fan of lilacs, but this one... just maybe. ;^)

Yup, looks like 'Walnut Glen' to me.

Thanks for posting these!

Wonderful stuff. I chuckled at the yellow birch a little. Very nice shrubby plant-it barely hints at the forest giant this is in its home range. I wonder how they achieved that. Come to think of it, there was an odd, shrubby birch in a yard here. Keyed out to be yellow birch. We're not quite in yellow birch country here either, though it kicks in just north of us. Anyway, that plant looked a lot like CBG's. A shrub, not a tree really. Maybe that's how it grows when out of range.

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Thanks, Whaas! Pinus bungeana is fascinating. It's wearing camouflage! Breathtaking pictures.

Great post! Nice variety of plants illustrated and stunning color!

Whaas,

WONDERFUL photos. You have an eye for beautiful photography. The love of your life is a precious little tyke. I can see how she may have your wrapped around your finger.

Thanks for sharing all the photos. Great plants and beautiful coloring.

wonderful pictures.

ID-wise: I think that is not an oak but a hickory, probably carya glabra?

I love it when people reply in this thread so I have an excuse to slowly scroll through all the pics again... The "show stopper" maple gets me every time!

John

Glad everyone enjoyed and appreciate the comments. Look forward to seeing more fall pics from those around the country. John and ark are always good for a few fall pics.

You're telling me! I had to wait for all the people to move away from the tree just to slip in a picture.

You might be right on the proposed oak being a hickory. It was off the beaten path and I just snapped a quick pic just because it had a richer yellow than most trees. I actually felt like I was lost as I was on the bike trail...still don't know how I got out there, lol.

Beautiful shots of some beautiful trees!!! Thank you for putting them up here for all of us to see them, and your daughter is gorgeous. I have a 2y old daughter and know the love you speak of. ;)

IMO, best bark goes to the Pinus bungeana. Looks like snow camo. Very unique and pretty.

Now I do have one complaint, that pic of the Tupelo is really making me think about putting one in the front/side of my home but the tri colored beech is still in the lead, not by much now thought...

Ostrya virginiana is a beautiful tree - There's some in the woods behind our house that are 1 foot or more in diameter. They have a nice, yellow ochre fall color.

I'm actually trying to grow some yellow birch down here - So far, so good! It actually does grow wild in Cook and DuPage counties in ILL.

I did a double take when I first saw some oriental lilacs at the Morton Arboretum - I thought they were some kind of birch!

Thanks again for the pics!

Right you are Jimbob regarding the existence of some natural populations of yellow birch in Illinois. I would not have expected that. Definitely makes its best and most abundant growth far to the north of there though. Places like the Nicolet and Ottawa National Forests of N. WI and Upper Michigan respectively.

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Some excellent specimens can be found in Yellow Birch Ravine Nature Preserve in Crawford County, IN. That's 150 miles south of where I live! It grows there with Eastern Hemlock and Mountain Laurel - A taste of Appalachia in Indiana. Of course, that's in a protected, cool limestone gorge.

It's quite common in the Northern part of the state, up around Lake Michigan and across the northern tier of counties.

Cool Jimbob. I was at a place in S. Ohio once-Seven Caves?-and this was a limestone gorge with caves, of course. Didn't see Betula allegheniensis but there were lots of Thuja occidentalis along with hemlock and tulip tree. Pretty interesting forest, way down there.

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