Heptacodium miconioides, Seven Sons bush, right?
Toronado3800 Zone 6 St Louis
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arbordave (SE MI)
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Heptacodium miconioides
Comments (14)This is my first year with heptacodium. I bought a tube of it from Forest Farm back in the spring, after someone on the forum told me how fast they grow. She was speaking truth. When it arrived, I potted it into a one gallon. By summer, I put it into a five gallon pot, and now it desperately needs to go into the ground. It is amazingly fast growing. Also amazingly floppy. I tried tieing some of the branches to a stake, but that doesn't seem to be working. It may just be one of those things you have to let grow awhile and study it until the right leader makes its appearance. Its fall color is nice too. Big plus....See MorePruning Heptacodium M. (Seven Son Flower)
Comments (9)That certainly sounds pretty big already. I planted mine when it was quite small - 3' or less. It was a shrub form and I pruned out the weaker stems right away to make a single trunk form. That pruning certainly didn't slow it down any, but I wouldn't have done that if it had been a larger plant to begin with. I wanted it to be a small tree but to also fill in a relatively large space, so I've left it to branch quite low down - it only has 3-4' of clear trunk. That means I have to keep lopping off bits of branches to keep a path clear. I lop off any bits that start blocking the path any time during the growing season. It seem to be a very tough plant because it's not bothered at all by my erratic pruning! It's one of our favorite plants because it makes a beautiful show in September just as the Monarch butterflies are gathering for migration and the tree is a butterfly magnet! I miss my garden in winter so I welcomed this thread as a reason to look at our pictures of this beautiful tree in our garden. I'll bore you with a few pictures :-) This is a picture from 2009 - it's a bigger tree now but this is still one of our favorite views of it: Bejeweled with Monarchs: Such a beautiful tree...!! I'm sure yours won't disappoint and, in your zone, you should get the pink display after the flowers fade - the growing season here is too short for that, but it's still well worth growing here....See MoreNeed Information on Katsura Tree and Seven Son tree
Comments (12)Selected by Norm Evers of South Dakota State University. Excellent dark red fall color. Extremely dense growth habit producing a wide crown at a very young age. Few seeds produced. Exposure : Full sun to Partial shade Height : 20' Zone : 4 Flower Color : Yellow-green Foliage Color : Dark green Fall Color : Dark red Shape Form : Rounded Spread : 20' Genus : Aesculus Cultivar : Homestead Here is the one I had at my old place. Its three years older now, not sure how it looks as of today. I damaged a branch in that hollow spot, sure it filled in. Another source...just google Aesculus Homestead Aesculus x 'Homestead' Homestead Buckeye Growth Habit - Rounded to broad Height: 35' Spread: 25' Foliage - Medium green Fall Foliage - Yellow, orange, red Flower - Yellowish-red, sterile Hardiness Zone - 4 Cultural Requirements - Prefers a more moist, well drained soil and performs poorly in a dry site. Grows in sun or partial shade. Comments - Obtained in 2006 from Carlton Nursery. This is a hybrid of A. flava x A. glabra bred at South Dakota State University. This post was edited by whaas on Sat, May 18, 13 at 21:24...See MoreSeven sons tree
Comments (6)I have 3 6-year old trees in Beach Park, IL Zone 5a. They have not suckered yet, but they are about 12 feet tall(planted them when they were about 8 ins tall). They are fast growers, and they do flower for me. Some years, I find a little die back at the tips. When they are younger, the branches grow at wierd angles and I have to prune them yearly to shape them to look like a tree. Now that the growing pain is over, they looke more tree like and easier to manage....See Morearbordave (SE MI)
6 months agolast modified: 6 months agoAnother reason I really like it are the long lasting red calyces that develop in October. Here's the largest of 3 that I have in the yard (first photo 10/9/21, second 10/28/21)
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6 months agoarbordave (SE MI)
6 months agoI believe there are two cultivars currently on the market - Temple of Bloom and Tianshan. Both are supposed to be somewhat more compact than the straight species. Temple of Doom is also advertised to start blooming a bit earlier and have deeper red "bracts".
My largest plant, which is sited in full sun, has colored reliably from year to year (once it was fully established). Most years the calyces turn red the first week of October and still have some color into the first week of November (unless we get a hard freeze before then). Here are a couple more photos - one from early October last year, and one from early November a few years ago.
10/2/21
11/3/19
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