![]() ![]() After a hot summer, ‘Golden Glory’ may produce a small crop of small, shiny, edible red cherry-like fruits in autumn. Tree and shrub specialists Bluebell Arboretum and Nursery recommend Cornus mas ‘Golden Glory’ AGM for its particular abundance of yellow flowers. It was much favoured as a very tough, hardy tree by revolutionary Victorian gardener, William Robinson, and is currently lighting up a patch of open woodland in the Wild Garden at Gravetye Manor in Sussex, see the Gravetye Garden Blog The potential for Cornus mas to be a really handsome specimen tree year round has now been realised by nurseries selling mature trees and if you have the room and the funds you could source a really handsome, spreading, semi mature “umbrella multi-stem’ from a nursery such as Deepdale Trees which supplies trees for many of the Chelsea Flower Show gardens.Īt the other end of the scale, a young Cornus mas can be a brilliant addition to a softer, more natural style of gardening too. The advantage of giving the tree this sort of space is that it will have a much greater impact later in the year too, when it is in leaf. It can be a rather unassuming tree but when given space – as it is here, the absolute queen amongst pale stone and open lawn – it can offer a sensational cloud of light and colour on the darkest of February days. The burial ground is home to a dozen Grade II listed eighteenth and nineteenth century tombs of wealthy locals, the graves of 35 victims of the plague in 1665 and where Old Bridget the Queen of the Norwood Gypsies was buried in 1768.Ĭornus mas is a densely branched, deciduous, large shrub or small tree with small umbels of brilliant yellow flowers in late February and early March. I was in Dulwich to pay homage to my favourite specimen of Cornus mas – the Cornelian Cherry – which is the centrepiece of a beautifully groomed burial ground in the middle of the village. The velvety day-glow green and yellow grass was erupting all over with silvery crocus buds and dense stooks of deep green narcissus foliage. Saturday was a morning of glowering sunshine and the long dead inhabitants of the 400 year old cemetery were making earnest attempts to kick start the spring. ![]() ![]() ‘Levens Hall Garden’ screen print, 1985 Norman Stevens ARAįriends who visit Dulwich Village from Islington perhaps or Kent are always amazed to find a small section of picture-perfect Connecticut in South London, ten minutes from Victoria station. YELLOW AGAINST GREY IN A DULWICH GRAVEYARD AND AN EXHIBITION OF MAGICAL PRINTS OF PLANTS AND GARDENSĬornus mas – or the Cornelian Cherry – at the perfectly groomed Dulwich Old Burial Ground in South London. ![]()
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