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Eucryphia x nymansensis 'Nymansay'
Just wondering if any other members grow this beautiful and valuable evergreen? Since joining the forum last year I don't recall any mention of it .
Have one growing in my garden (E.Lincs) ; about thirty years old now and kept to about eighteen feet high with a bi-annual pruning.
It is a mass of single rose-like flowers in August during which time it is alive with hoverflies and bees .
I think of it as 'valuable' purely because its flowering season occurs at a time when most other shrubs and trees have virtually finished .
Once reputed to be tender , I've never had any problems with hardiness .
Would be interested to hear of others experiences with this species .
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I recall an episode of Beechgrove Garden last year - filmed in Scotland - and they went to a garden with a very fine example. So laden with flowers there was barely a leaf to be seen.
It's one I've been looking for a space for ever since
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I have never attempted that one. The reputation for being less than hardy, the need for neutral to acid soil and protection from cold drying winds (RHS) all contributed to my neglect of this plant.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks you two for the replies !
As I said , hardiness has never been a problem here ; mine sailed through the appalling temperatures of 2009/10 with no damage whatsoever .
If space allows , give it a go !
On a humourous note , I remember bringing it home in the back of my car from Roger Plant Centre in N.Yorks , my daughter anxiously sat in the back , that on one side and a Metasequoia on the other !
Needless to say , she 'enjoyed' the journey
; Oh well , plants come first !!
I've got one!
I fell in love with it in a garden in Hampshire a couple of years ago, and my sister later bought me one as a surprise. It wasn't something I really would have considered really, for all the reasons given plus lack of space. But of course I was delighted to receive it anyway. However, my garden wasn't ready for it so I've repotted it in a series of ever bigger pots. It seems quite happy, but it's now in the biggest pot I possess and has to go in the ground this year!
LG the L
Pleased to hear you're in the 'Eucryphia Club' , and glad to contact a fellow member !
My policy towards plants is to give anything a go . Although I've never tested my soils pH , I assume it's neutral to acid . Pieris thrives with no soil modification at all , and I've a couple of Camellias grown as space fillers behind more interesting plants .
Locals say our house was built in the inter-war period (1930s??) on the site of very old orchards ; bit of a long shot here , but would the annual influx of malic acid have contributed to this ?
Either way , enjoy your Eucryphia ; I'm sure the bees will !
I'm afraid it's not for me: alkaline clay, waterlogged in winter and cold salty winds straight off the sea. Only the toughest of the tough survive in my garden!