Is Hydrangea robusta taxonomy robust?
It was in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society in December 1858 that Hooker and Thompson described a new species of hydrangea they had discovered in Sikkim, in the temperate Himalaya, flowering in August of the previous year. They named this Hydrangea ‘robusta’, describing it as a small tree with strong branches – arbor parva, ramis…
Evergreen Summer Magnolias
Successive days in May 2026 with temperatures around 30C and an absence of rain caused concern about damage to many of our plants, but in general we found ill-effects were mitigated by the deep rains of late winter which left the soil at full field capacity, and our policy of heavily mulching all young plants…
More tree peonies – Japan, some species and a few yellows.
There are no tree peony species native to Japan: but sometime in the eighth century, the Chinese Moutan found its way into the country, where it became known to the Japanese as the Botan, and over the centuries, developed its own Japanese character. In his book ‘The Moutan or Tree Peony’ Michael Howarth-Booth – never far…
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