Red Tip Photinia

At our offices (where I actually don’t have an office because I work from home but where I go in once a week or as needed because it’s only ten minutes away and it’s a long story for another day) they have these decorative shrubs all along the back of the parking lot.

I hadn’t really paid any attention to them – to the best of my recollection they’ve always just been your generic office parking lot landscaping green hedge shrub.

But now that spring is springing and everything’s doing their new growth dance, I see that all of the new growth here is this bright red, where all of the old leaves are still dark green.

There are also these flower or see buds scattered amongst the leaves.

The app tells me this is “Red Tip Photinia.” Okay. I’m not sure I see the “red tip” part, it looks like the whole leaves are either green wth no red or red with no green. But that’s probably why I’m not a botanist!

Whatever, I can see why it’s used for decorative landscaping. It’s wonderful!