Bloedel Bark
Darren Strenge
Even as autumn steals away foliage from our landscapes to make way for winter, there is still much beauty in our gardens. Winter really isn’t the pause in our enjoyment of nature that it often seems. Shift gears visually and zoom in on garden details, like bark for example. Even normally non-descript bark is beautiful when examined more closely.
Paperbark Maple (Acer griseum) with beautiful, red, peeling bark.
Snakebark Maple (Acer tegmentosum). Unusual green and white striping.
Pacific Madrone (Arbutus menziesii) with reddish, sometimes peeling bark.
Swamp Birch (Betula alleghaniensis), an east coast native with golden tinged white bark.
Himalayan Birch (Betula utilis) a commonly planted white barked birch. Golden brown barked specimens also can be found.
European Beech (Fagus sylvatica). Lichens seem to love the bark of this species almost as much as they love red alder.
Orangebark Stewartia (Stewartia monadelpha) with beautiful scaly, light brownish orange bark.
Japanese Stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia).
Taxus Brevifolia. Native yew species. Mostly occurs as a small, evergreen, understory tree.
Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata), one of our large, majestic forest trees with bark that exfoliates in vertical strips.