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Eucryphia milliganii



8th August 2000




11th August 2006


A splendid small flowered little Eucryphia with small leaves and dense growth. In twenty years it has grown to about fifteen feet tall.

16th July 2008


It has made a small tree, now dwarfed by some of the faster things growing around it. I wish I had planted a forest of them when I put this one in, but at the time I wasn't sure how it would perform.

16th July 2008


Perfect white flowers in June are always something of a surprise, they seem to arrive without any warning.

3rd February 2009


It is lovely in flower, but I have to admit it was just as striking covered in snow. Unfortunately, I think this is its swansong. I have been levelling some ground in the garden (there is no naturally flat ground here at all, it is all steep hillside) with a JCB, and unfortunately I ran down the Eucryphia in a careless moment. I have cut it right back to a stump, but I think the root damage is unrecoverable. It will be replanted, because I am very fond of it, but I have lost a few decades of growth.