Scarlet Buckeye | Aesculus pavia

Scarlet Buckeye Aesculus pavia

Order:  Sapindales

Family: Sapindaceae.  formerly Aceraceae (maple)

Genus:  Aesculus

References.                                        

Hardin, James W, Donald J. Leopold, and Fred M. White. Harlow & Harrar's Textbook of Dendrology. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001. Print.

Fraser, Susan M, Sally A. Leone, Francois A. Michaux, and Pierre J. Redoute. The Trees of North America: Michaux and Redoute's American Masterpiece. , 2021. Print.

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Arboretum Visit

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Located in the Fern Dell are these beautiful hot pink azaleas.

Lacy Japanese Maple in the Fern Dell

Masses of colorful snapdragons 

The Buckeyes were flowering brightly.

Japanese Maple

Silver Elaeagnus and lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina) 

with soft lavender pansy "Nature frosty blue"

Delphinium

Pyramidal shaped holly form a magnificent border hedge

Silvery cardoon artichoke thistle centers a pastel garden bed with a lamb's ear border

Yellow columbine

Hosta, ajuga, and creeping Jenny

Tulips with peony qualities

Texas Longhorn in a bed of  "bluebonnets to scale," delpiniums. Clever topiary.

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