Frans Fontaine Hornbeam Hedge - Second Full Season - September 2019
After close to a year of thinking and planning for the installation of a row of Frans Fontaine European Columnar Hornbeam trees along our north property line, we had eight of them installed in late May of 2018. Now, seventeen months later, I wanted to document in the garden diary where the trees are in their growth and maturation. A little bit more than a year ago, I posted some similar photos to document their growth. Go check them out here . They were vibrant and green. But, very tapered and the gaps between the trees were large at between two and three feet in spacing. I posted again as they were entering dormancy in November and began to turn yellow last Fall . The trees and limbs were mostly the same, tapered, tight selves. Then again a few weeks later in late November when one of the trees dropped all of its leaves. These photos give you a sense for the gaps in between these young trees last Fall. By April of this year, the buds that had been set the previ