Asia Garden 

This damp, sheltered copse contains a number of borderline hardy trees and shrubs for example Colletia hystrix, a  most unusual shrub, distinct among cultivated plants being quite, or almost leafless, and bearing prominent spines with attractive, small and fragrant, white flowers produced in summer and autumn.

 

A series of small glades with dappled shade offers excellent conditions for Camellias, Rhododendrons, Pieris and others, together with Primulas and other herbaceous perennials.

Central to the garden is the beautiful Handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata which is at its best in May. Other plants of interest include:

  • Picea breweriana (Brewer’s Weeping Spruce), a most elegant tree native to western North America.

  • Taxodium distichum  (Swamp cypress), a deciduous conifer native to the wet places, rivers and swamps in USA, and dominant tree in the Everglades of Florida.

  • Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata, whose very large pink to rose purple flowers open in February /March.

  • Magnolia obovata syn. hypoleuca, a Japanese magnolia, which has large, creamy white,  strongly perfumed flowers in May/June if not nibbled off by the squirrels.

  • Asia Garden November 2020

  • Camellia x williamsii ‘St.Ewe’ February 2016

  • Magnolia campbellii March 2022

  • Handkerchief Tree Davidia involucrata May 2016

  • Handkerchief Tree Davidia involucrata May 2016

  • Liquidambar styraciflua December 2013

  • Picea breweriana January 2022

  • Pieris forrestii var. forrestii

  • Rhododendrons May 2020