[Magdalen] Tricolor.

[Marion Thompson]

I love the Tricolour Beech, a most attractive tree.  Generally around 
here one mostly sees the maroon beech and the weeping variety.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 5/18/2017 10:44 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Tree stuff:
>   
> Our Tricolor Beech - a cultivar of European Beech ( Fagus sylvatica)
> with green leaves and white and rose-colored leaf margins, is  really
> looking good this spring.  This is despite chronic White Tail  Deer
> browsing and periodic defoliation from Gypsy Moths.  The tree  has
> mostly outgrown the deer, but I'm not sure how the moths are going
> to be this year.  Supposedly the abnormally cold 2 weeks this spring
> with patchy frosts have been bad for them.  Since oaks, the  favorite
> food of these moth pests, are in the Beech family (Fagaceae), beeches
> are susceptible to defoliation.
>   
> Though we live in a Pocono development named "Beech Mountain
> Lakes," after the natural groves of American Beech (Fagus  grandifolia),
> here, the North American species is generally not used for  landscaping
> purposes because it doesn't  have the large number of cultivars
> and fast growth of the European species. As a result there are two
> other European Beech cultivars that are popular here for landscaping.
> They are the maroon-leaf variety ("Copper Beech") and the latter's
> weeping variety.
>   
> These beech varieties are not so popular as the frequently planted
> maroon-leaf variety of Norway Maple, these two species (beech and
> maple) are a welcome invasion from the Old World.
>   
>   
> David S.
>