Dawyck Purple beech

• Awards: RHS AGM (current) 1993

Dawyck Purple is a popular beech tree with bronze leaves, which grows with an upright columnar form.

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Dawyck Purple beech for sale

Choose a size - pot-grown

All our pot-grown trees are grown for us to our specification by the Frank P Matthews nursery.

• PG12-year 12L pot-grown tree, £86.00
  Very large tree (4m-7m after 10 years)
  

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Tree specification

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Next deliveries

Order now for delivery from week commencing 30th March onwards.

Delivery charges

Delivery for a single tree starts at £9.95, it is calculated based on your postcode.

All about Dawyck Purple beech

Dawyck Purple is a popular columnar beech tree, featuring a dense canopy of dark bronze / purple summer leaves, which turn yellow and orange in the autumn.

The tree reaches about 10m after 20 years, but has a very upright habit, and a mature spread of 3m or so.

Dawyck Purple prefers rich soils including chalk soils, but does not tolerate water-logged heavy clay soils or coastal salt spray.

Dawyck Purple is a sister variety of Dawyck Gold, grown from seeds collected from the same beech tree  growing at Dawyck Gardens near Edinburgh, and raised at the Trompenburg Arboretum in the Netherlands. Both varieties grow with a similar habit, and the contrast of golden green and dark bronze foliage works well when several of them are inter-planted.

British-grown trees

Unlike many garden centres and online retailers, the vast majority of our fruit trees are grown in the UK. Find out more.

All our trees are certified under the Plant Healthy scheme, supervised by the Plant Health Alliance. Other stakeholders include Defra and the RHS. Find out more.

Guaranteed fruit trees

When you buy your fruit tree from Orange Pippin Fruit Trees we guarantee it for the first season in your garden while it gets established. If it doesn't grow successfully, we'll either replace it the following season or offer a refund, subject to some conditions. Find out more.

More about beech

Most of the beech trees we supply belong to the genus Fagus, of which the best-known is the Common Beech, Fagus sylvatica.

Beech trees grow steadily over the course of about 30 years, to become very large stately trees with grey bark, and a real presence in the landscape. A typical beech tree will be around 10m at 20 years old, and 20m-30m at 30 years old. Trees planted in woodlands are typically taller than those planted in the open.

Beech trees are deciduous, and produce both small flowers and catkins. Most go on to produce small beech nuts which are useful for wildlife, and can be edible.

Beech trees are easy to grow in almost any soil or situation, but they do not like waterlogged soils or salt spray. They do best in full sun or partial shade.