Wintersweet

Chimonanthus praecox 'Su Xin La Mei'
ロウバイ （蝋梅)

This Chinese cultivar of Wintersweet looks very similar to the cultivar 'Luteus' but for us it grows a little faster. Like 'Luteus' the flowers have a fantastic winter time scent. Began Flowering in our garden this year on January 15th.

Late Fall Colour.

November 29th & two plants in the Garden are still showing good Fall Colour:

Nothofagus antartica 'Puget Pillar'

Liquidambar styraciflua 'Slender Silhouette'

Air Pots™

In early November we depotted and washed out some liners grown in Airpots™ to compare them to the liners grown in regular pots. As we expected from previous trials the liners grown in Airpots™ not only had more roots but the roots were of a much better structure with few if any circling roots & a great many more root tips. You can see the differences between the 2 root systems here.

Davidia Seed

[11/13/09] Today we also picked all the seed off our
Davidia involucrata 'Sonoma'

Stewartia seed sowing

Its been a while (well a long time) since we posted to this blog, it's been a busy Summer!! This weekend we sowed all our different Stewartia seed picked from the many Stewartia in our garden.

Survivors

So only 2 of our many Callistemon survived the winter of 2008/09. Even the fabled Woodlanders clone succumbed to the cold, snow & ice. Callistemon sieberi however survived unscathed & doesn't even have any damaged foliage. The other survivor was Callistemon citrinus 'Splendens' - OK I cheated on this one it was in a pot in the greenhouse :^)..

Silverbells & Snowbells

Tis the season for Silverbells & Snowbells. Two of the best in our garden this week are Stryax obassia & Halesia diptera var. magniflora.