I got it for $5 about 25 or 30 years ago after it had been sitting on asphalt in a small garden shop all summer on its 1′ root ball and at about 6′ tall. trunk and a spread of about 18′ by 14′ that I’ve never pruned. I have a 32′ tall weeping purple beech with an 8″ dia. Next post I will cover the Tricolor Beech and cover some beech care and growing tips that apply to that tree and the purple fountain beech. Growth Habit: Upright with weeping branches Plant Detailsįeatures: Deep purple foliage color, Ornamental Bark, Slow Growing, upright form, Weeping Branches, Slow growing. The smooth gray elephant hide like bark gets better every year as it trunk grows in size. Purple fountain beech in my yard in winter It does sometimes hold it leaves in the winter and their dried tan color actually provides some nice winter interest.
Purple Fountain Weeping Beech in October of 2018 still holding on to its purple color.
It does normally get a bronze fall color late in the season that is pretty classy but understated.
#Weeping purple tree full#
It holds it’s purple color in full sun throughout the season as shown by this big specimen at the Chicago Botanic Garden in late October. It has great purplish black leaf color that stands out and demands attention. It will get bigger, perhaps 20-30 feet high and 10-15 feet wide eventually. The size of the purple fountain beech vary with age, but a tree about 15 feet high by 5 feet wide is about the size most of the larger ones I see are. Purple Fountain Weeping Beech Spring of 2015 It’s a tree whose leader grows straight up and all the other branches hang down. It is very upright and narrow growing, with cascading branches and deep purple foliage. It works great in an island bed or near the corner of a house. But make no mistake this is not a shade tree. The purple fountain beech grows upright and stays so narrow that it fits where you would never expect to fit a beech tree. Purple Fountain Beech as exclamation point Both of these trees are much smaller than their big brothers. They are both undeniable specimen trees that have lots of visual impact. The other I planted as a five year anniversary gift to my wife. I like them so much in fact that they I planted one as a memorial tree for my brother David after he passed away from a long battle with cancer. Kind of scary looking? So you DO like purple leaf trees? Walking down the sidewalk in Woodstock, IL and you turn the corner to see this staring at you. These are the Purple Fountain beech and the Tri Color beech.
I think that the best beech trees for most yards are two purple leafed and SMALLER varieties. But it seems most all the green leaf beech get BIG. Yes, there are great green leaf beech trees such as Fernleaf Beech. I am going to flip my opinion when talking about another one of my favorite trees, the European beech ( Fagus sylvatica). I also gave some suggested green leaf varieties. I made the argument that green leaf Japanese maples fit into landscapes better than their purple leafed cousins. Yeah even though it’s not a native tree and I have bad mouthed Purple leaf Japanese maples in a past post. Today, I am, going to recommend you consider an odd specimen tree, the Purple fountain beech.
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