{"id":5136,"date":"2009-10-16T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T17:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:25:04","slug":"weeping-beech-fagus-pendula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/weeping-beech-fagus-pendula\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeping Beech Fagus Pendula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2462\/4011899502_9eb4d419cf.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beech or Fagus are a small genus containing some of the most noble trees that can make a fine specimen tree. This weeping Beech&#8217;s full name is Fagus Sylvatica Pendula or the Weeping Beech although I have christened in the Crying Beech.<br \/>\nIt is a large and spectacular form with the main stem or trunk covered in droopy hanging branch lets. There are several related weeper but this tree was quite singular in it&#8217;s habit and grew to 50 feet yet still looked immature. <\/p>\n<p>Fagus sylvatica &#8216;Purple Fountain&#8217; as an excellent tree with cascading branches and dark, bronze\/purple\/green foliage.  Very similar to other weeping beech but much more columnar in shape. Leaves turn more green throughout the summer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2501\/4011129127_9e06c2f528.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nBeech in Autumn at Valley Gardens Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon supply Beech trees  and Purple Beech. but a nursery would have a wider selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beech or Fagus are a small genus containing some of the most noble trees that can make a fine specimen tree. This weeping Beech&#8217;s full name is Fagus Sylvatica Pendula or the Weeping Beech although I have christened in the Crying Beech. It is a large and spectacular form with the main stem or trunk covered in droopy hanging branch lets. There are several related weeper but this tree was quite singular in it&#8217;s habit and grew to 50 feet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/trees-and-shrubs\/weeping-beech-fagus-pendula\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}