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Garden Guru: Scrumptious Sorbus

I do like a sorbus – all those wonderful coloured berries are a delight every autumn and the funny thing is I forget just what a little miracle they are until the next time. See what I mean? And then there is the tree ...

I do like a sorbus – all those wonderful coloured berries are a delight every autumn and the funny thing is I forget just what a little miracle they are until the next time.

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See what I mean? And then there is the tree itself, choose well and you will have a compact and pretty showstopper with a graceful habit, spring flowers, berries and good autumn colour. Sorbus has many common names — including whitebeam, rowan, service tree and mountain ash — and is a genus of around 100 species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the Rosacea family. They aren’t a very long lived tree but that doesn’t worry me and I would planting a S. ‘Joseph Rock’ which is particularly susceptible to Fireblight, one of the few downsides to sorbus in general.
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Take this graceful beauty with pearly pink berries, Sorbus hupehensis ‘Pink Pagoda’. This is a native of China, a type of  mountain ash  thought to have come into our gardens in the 1920s. Just take a closer look at these berries.
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simply gorgeous.
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 I also like  S.cashmiriana (from Kashmir), which has plump porcelain white berries on long pink stalks and green pinnate leaves.
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Sorbus Sunshine is very well named,
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and for a classic red try Sorbus Aucuparia ‘Cardinal Royal’.
 You may not have room in your garden for a new tree but look out for these in all their glory as you walk along the streets of our area. They are a good plant for wildlife and have been in favour with councils as a street tree.
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