• Trio of Magnolia cylindrica on the Chinese Hillside and two M. kobus at the view point

    Magnolia cylindrica

    Magnolia cylindrica

  • Prunus ‘Spire’ on the Birch Lawn, centre road
  • Lysichiton americanus – yellow spathes at the pond edge
  • The British natives, wood anemone, Anemone nemorosa and blue anemone, A. apennina, carpeting the woodland areas.
  • Rhododendron uvarifolium var. uvarifolium – a George Forrest collection from 1914 S.W.China forms a mass of pink at the Peat Walls
  • Rhododendron racemosum – collections by Forrest and Yu from the 1920s and 1970s in S.W.China
  • Euptelea polyandra Japan. Covered in bloom, the red anthers are conspicuous
  • Cercidiphyllum magnificum collected by Ogisu in Japan. Note the delicate spidery anthers protruding from the leaf bud axils
  • Leucojum aestivum ‘Gravetye Giant’ – large white flowers on two foot tall stems. Glossy green leaves
  • Leucojum aestivum ssp. pulchellum, opposite the West Gate, smaller flowers, native to the islands of Corsica and Sardinia