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This is a new edgeworthii hybrid from Ken Cox at Glendoick Nursery in Scotland. This is a compact grower with attractive foliage and masses of super fragrant white flushed pink flowers in mid-spring. The dark green leaves have heavy veining and are quite attractive. Hardy even in eastern Scotland and a real breakthrough. Our first offering of this lovely plant.
A truly stunning foliage plant. And how could it not be a great foliage plant considering it is the offspring of two of the very finest foliage plants in the entire genus. The leaves are shorter and wider than a typical yakushimanum and the thick and dense indumentum that covers the lower leaf surface and stems is a bright orange-brown. The flowers are white flushed pink in mid-spring. A nice and compact growth habit.
A much lower-growing and more compact version of augustinii with red-purple flowers much earlier in the blooming season. Rarely offered but easily grown in sun or light shade. Cutting-grown plants from a plant grown from wild collected seed.
These are seedlings from our own named selection of this slow-growing and choice, compact deciduous shrub with a somewhat horizontally branched and rounded habit. The foliage of this selection is bright blue-green and colors attractively in the autumn. The exquisite pale rose-pink flowers (mid-spring) are small and bell-shaped, hanging in clusters and covered with a glaucous "bloom" (like a plum). Perfect in a woodland garden but also quite successful in full sun if well-watered. Native to Japan. These are seedlings so no guarantee regarding foliage color.
NOTE: formerly known as Menziesia ciliicalyx 'Honshu Blue'.
This is a slow-growing and choice, compact deciduous shrub with a somewhat horizontally branched and rounded habit. The small and rounded leaves are deep green, quite hairy and color up quite attractively in the autumn. The exquisite deep rose-purple flowers (mid-spring) are small and bell-shaped, hanging in showy clusters beneath the newly emerging foliage. Perfect in a woodland garden but also quite successful in full sun if well-watered. These are seedlings from our own named selection 'Plum Drops'. This is a stunning and very slow-growing species native to Japan. Rarely offered.
Note: formerly Menziesia ciliicalyx 'Plum Drops'
Our own named selection of this slow-growing and choice, compact deciduous shrub with a somewhat horizontally branched and rounded habit. The foliage of this selection is bright blue-green and colors attractively in the autumn. The exquisite pale rose-pink flowers (mid-spring) are small and bell-shaped, hanging in clusters and covered with a glaucous "bloom" (like a plum). Perfect in a woodland garden but also quite successful in full sun if well-watered. Native to Japan. Our best “blue-leaved” form of this variable species. NOTE: formerly known as Menziesia ciliicalyx 'Honshu Blue'.
A relatively new species to cultivation. This high alpine member of subsection Taliensia has dark red-brown indumentum on the lower leaf surface. Brightly colored rose to deep pink to almost red flowers in mid-spring. Best in very light shade with excellent drainage. From seed collected wild in a newly explored region of the Eastern Himalaya.
Only recently introduced from a newly explored region of the Sino-Himalaya. As seen in the wild, these were stunning foliage plants – very similar to the obviously closely related species bureavii and bureavioides but lacking the thick indumentum on the lower leaf surface. A very uniform population on a single mountain (but literally thousands of plants – it was the dominant species). Very beautiful glossy foliage. Probably pink to white flowers in mid-spring. Best in light shade with good drainage.
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