bell-shaped flowers in spring and dark-blue, inedible fruit during the cool season. Japanese blueberry trees can be used for framing homes, for accents, for mixed-shrubbery borders and for screens ...

Unfortunately the tree is subject to attack by the native American pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, which, followed by blue stain fungus, may be lethal. The Japanese black pine is ...

and also features incisa cherries – a mountain variety of Japanese cherry. Also blooming early are the park's Paulownia fortunei ‘Fast Blue’ trees – which are known as the Fox Glove tree.

He’d been watching the ABC’s Gardening Australia when a segment on the Japanese art of growing and styling trees in miniature pots piqued his interest. Today, aged 29 and based in the Blue ...