Columnar English Oak (Quercus robur 'Fastigiata') - Monrovia - Columnar English Oak (Quercus robur 'Fastigiata')

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Narrow, upright branches as a young tree, a broader pyramidal form with age. Dark green leaves hold color into fall before dropping. Attractive garden tree or mass in rows along avenues. Deciduous.
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Botanical Pronunciation: KWER-kus ROH-ber
Key feature: Year-round Interest
Plant type: Tree
Deciduous/evergreen: Deciduous
Cold hardiness zones: 5 - 8
Light needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.
Average landscape size: Moderate grower to 50 ft. tall, 15 ft. wide.
Growth rate: Moderate
Growth habit: Columnar
Special features: Attracts Birds, Deer Resistant, Fall Color, Waterwise, Year-round Interest
Landscape use: Windbreak
Problem/solution: Deer Resistant
Blooms: Inconspicuous
Foliage color: Dark Green
Item no.: 6931
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Pruning time: winter.

Design Ideas
This form is excellent for spaces between the fronts of multistory buildings to soften corners and screen off sideyard. May be planted in a sizeable windrow on larger properties or used as a visual screen for unsightly land uses. Upright form is a problem solver for large institutional sites.

Companion Plants
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is a good shrub for yellow fall color and blossoms. For yellow blooms in summer, plant a row of Sunburst Hypericum (Hypericum frondosum 'Sunburst') in front of theoak. For berried winter interest with the planting, try Blue Girl and Blue Boy Holly (Ilex x meservaeae 'Blue Girl,' 'Blue Boy').

History
Although it is commonly called the English oak, due to extensive use in ship building and half timber architecture, Q. robur is also native to Europe, North Africa and parts of western Asia. The genus for oaks is steeped in prehistory of Europe and well known to Linnaeus who named it Quercus. Linnaeus gave the proper species named for the common name used by Europeans for the tree: robur. This narrow form was first thought its own species classified first as Q. fastigiata by French botanist Jean Lamarck, 1744-1829, but was changed to the current subspecies by Swiss horticulturist Alphonse de Candolle, 1806-1893.

Lore
This is the ancient oak species of England, it's oldest specimens once venerated by the Druids as oracles.

Botanical Pronunciation: KWER-kus ROH-ber
Key feature: Year-round Interest
Plant type: Tree
Deciduous/evergreen: Deciduous
Cold hardiness zones: 5 - 8
Light needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat.
Average landscape size: Moderate grower to 50 ft. tall, 15 ft. wide.
Growth rate: Moderate
Growth habit: Columnar
Special features: Attracts Birds, Deer Resistant, Fall Color, Waterwise, Year-round Interest
Landscape use: Windbreak
Problem/solution: Deer Resistant
Blooms: Inconspicuous
Foliage color: Dark Green
Item no.: 6931

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