Ash tree flowers

The Ash dressknown by the common name Fresno de olor, is a beautiful deciduous tree that resists high temperatures, frost, and in addition to having beautiful flowers, during the fall it dresses in its best clothes.

It is a off-road plant that has a fast growth and with which you can decorate your garden, whether small, medium or large. Do we know it?

What is the Fraxinus ornus like?

Ash ornus tree

Our protagonist is a tree native to the Mediterranean region, which is distributed throughout southern Europe and Western Asia. In Spain we can find it in the Levante mountains. It is characterized by grow to a height of up to 15 meters (although normally it does not exceed 10m). Its leaves are deciduous, composed of 5 to 9 leaflets, of a light green color on the upper surface and with ferruginous pubescence on the underside. These during the fall turn reddish.

The flowers are grouped in inflorescences in the form of terminal or axillary canicles; They are white and they give off a very pleasant aroma. The fruit is a 2-2,5cm samara.

What care do you need?

Ash tree in autumn

This is how the leaves are laid in autumn.

If you want to have a specimen in your garden, then we will tell you how to take care of it:

  • Location: outside, in full sun. It must be planted at a distance of at least ten meters from pipes, soil, etc.
  • Land: not demanding. It can grow in both limestone and siliceous.
  • Irrigation: 3-4 times a week in summer, and two or three a week the rest of the year.
  • Subscriber: it can be fertilized regularly with organic fertilizers, such as humus or manure.
  • Planting time: late winter.
  • Multiplication: by seeds in autumn (direct sowing in the nursery), or by cuttings at the end of winter.
  • Plagues and diseases: It’s very tough.
  • Rusticity: withstands cold down to -12ºC.

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