Persian Ironwood Tree | Parrotia persica 'Vanessa' Flower Colour_Green tough and featuring enormous variety

tough and featuring enormous variety

starting out with a bronze shimmer

Native to Turkey

'Carmencita' boasts lush green foliage which takes on bronze and copper hues come autumn

some varieties have mottled foliage and typically with one bloom per bulb

Persian Ironwood Tree | Parrotia persica 'Vanessa' Flower Colour_Green tough and featuring enormous varietyWith its late winter flowers, flaky patchwork bark and stunning autumn foliage colour, 'Vanessa' delivers incredible visual interest the whole year round. The dainty red blooms are borne on bare branches from the end of winter into early spring, providing a much needed injection of colour in an otherwise bleak period in the garden calendar. A mottled, jigsaw like appearance to the tree's skin is redolent of camouflage, or perhaps a snake's skin.