Positive Recommendations from the experience of Members:

     We would like to add your recommendations this month,

                                                                                   and to add sections for Vegetables and Fruit before long.

Admirable Trees that have thrived:

Deciduous and Evergreen

Acer davidii, Acer capillipes

Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Cornus kousa chinensis

Eucryphia x intermedia ‘Rostrevor’

Fagus sylvatica laciniata

Halesia carolina

Magnolia X loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’

Prunus ‘Jo Nioi’, Shirotae’, ‘Ukon’

Quercus ilex

Stewartia pseudocamellia

Conifers:

Calocedrus decurrens

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Elwoodii’ & ‘Fletcherii’,

Ch. pisifera ‘Squarrosa Argentea’

Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Crippsii’

Cupressus macrocarpa

Juniperus chinensis ‘Columnaris Glauca’;

J. squamata ‘Meyerii’; J. recurva coxii.

Picea omorica, P. polita

Pinus koreana, P. nobilis,

Podocarpus salignus

Pseudotsuga menziesii

Thuja occidentalis ‘Spiralis’; Th. plicata ‘Stoneham Gold’

Tsuga heterophylla

Beautiful Big shrubs that have thrived:

Camellia ‘Donation’, ‘Jupiter’ &  ‘Inspiration’

Crinodendron hookerianum

Deutzia pulchra

Enkianthus campanulatus

Hydrangea quercifolia

Osmanthus delavayii

Rhododendron ‘Adm. Piet Hein‘,   ‘Beauty of Littleworth’, ‘Day Dream’,   ‘Grace Seabrook’,  ‘Grand Gala’,   

‘Loder’s White’, ‘Lord  Roberts’, ‘Matador’, ‘Mrs T H Lowinsky’, ‘Persimmon’, ‘St. Tudy’,   ‘Susan’,  ‘Unique’.

‘W.F.H.’ and Rh  cinnabarinum,  Rh  mallotum, Rh  wardii.  Rh  yunnanense.

Schizandra rubriflora.(cl.)

Conifers:

Thuja plicata ‘Stoneham Gold’.

Tsuga mertensiana ‘Glauca Nana’

Smaller shrubs that have thrived:

Chaenomeles ‘Nicoline’

Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’(cl)

Clematis texensis ‘Princess of Wales’

Hydrangea  ‘Enziandom’, ‘Fischer’s   Delight’, ‘Hamburg’, ‘Frillibet’,   ‘Lilacina’, ‘Taube’ and ‘Tokyo Delight.

Lithodora diffusa ‘Heavenly Blue’

Philadelphus ‘Belle Etoile’.

Rhododendron ‘Curlew’, ‘Intrifast’, ‘Iris  Murray’; ‘Lavandula’, ‘Linda‘,  ‘Odee Wright’, ‘Princess Anne’, ‘Review  Order’, ‘Tinner’s Blush’ and ‘Winsome’.

Rh. oreotrephes ‘Pentland’.

Rosa ‘Fred Loads’ & ‘Fritz Nobis’’

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Gimbornii’

Ch. obtusa ‘Fernspray Gold’

Cryptomeria japonica ‘Vilmoriniana’

Juniperus recurva ‘Embley Park’.

Thuja occidentalis ‘Hetz Midget’ and  ‘Rheingold’.

Tsuga canadensis ‘Jeddeloh’.

Recommendability check-sheet:

Does your experience of this plant in the Derry district

              cover at least five seasons?

Is the plant visitable, or viewable in a photograph?

It is reasonably wind-hardy and frost-hardy?

If it has special needs, are they easy to supply?

Is it either non-invasive,or easy to restrain completely?

Does it ‘deliver its goods’ in every typical season?

     Do your friends admire it?

Plenty of room here for more questions - send ‘em in !

Members’ Participation, Adding Value:

Please send me e-mails with your own additions - the names of trees or shrubs that you know have performed well over several years in this area.  

If you’d like to reinforce any of our published recommendations please write and let me know, then I’ll put a plus sign beside the plant names.  If you have had a negative experience attributable to the plant (e g not frost-hardy) tell me and I’ll put a minus sign beside it.  

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