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Given to me by a friend. It is getting to late in the season to plant it in the garden now so it will have to wait for some autumn rain. It will give me a chance to think up a location! Trees and Shrubs online says: "An evergreen shrub to 30 ft or more high, with a spreading crown; young shoots yellowish grey. Native of N.W. Yunnan, China; introduced by Forrest in 1923. It occurs at altitudes of 6,000 to 11,000 ft and has proved hardy in a sheltered corner at Kew, but it needs the conditions of the southern and south-western counties to develop its best qualities. It is 20 ft high in the Royal Horticultural Society’s Garden at Wisley and 30 ft at Exbury on the Solent. At Wayford Manor, Som., there is a specimen 20 ft high and 25 ft in spread. In Cornwall it has attained a height of 39 ft at Caerhays." |
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| 20th April 2026 | ||