Other Trees & Shrubs
Arduaine grows a considerable variety of woody plants from around the world, with trees, shrubs and climbers from every continent except Antarctica.
Best represented is Asia, which theme is common to many gardens due to the huge numbers of plants introduced from China and the surrounding areas. Most of our rhododendrons are native to the Sino-Himalayan region of East Asia, spreading out into Upper Burma, North Vietnam and Japan, and many well-known and popular garden shrubs come from China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea; Pieris japonica, Magnolia sieboldii, Buddleja davidii and Mahonia japonica are classic examples from a list of hundreds. Some of the less common plants we grow from the area include Trochodendron aralioides, Rehderodendron macrocarpum, Carrieria calycina, Glyptostrobus pensilis and Camellia oleifera.
From Europe we have among others Rhododendron hirsutum and Rh. ferrugineum, Acer platanoides, the Norway maple and Picea abies, the Norway spruce, as well as several British native trees and shrubs - Crataegus monogyna, the common hawthorn, the hazel, Corylus avellana, and Quercus robur, the English oak.
North America has given us a few rhododendrons and many conifers including Picea breweriana, Brewer's Weeping Spruce, Cupressus macrocarpa, the Monterey Cypress, and the Western Hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla. Among the many broadleaved trees and shrubs we can count Ribes speciosum, the flowering currant, Betula papyrifera, the Paper Birch and Lyonothamnus floribundus subsp. aspleniifolius, the rather long-winded name for the Catalina Ironwood, endemic to the islands off the coast of California.
South America has a page of its own, so many wonderful natives do we grow. One or two could be mentioned here - Berberidopsis corallina, a severely endangered and vigorous shrubby Chilean climber, growing to 60 or 70ft on a larch, Philesia magellanica, a shrub in cultivation but also a climber in Chile and Puya berteroniana, a bromeliad - pineapple relative - of unspeakably spiky construction; put your hand into the rosette and it will never let you go! Not really a shrub, maybe, but then not really a perennial either!
We have a number of plants from Australasia, though we don't specialise in them as do some other west coast gardens. Some of the less common include Polyscias sambucifolius, an evergreen shrub from SE Australia, Podocarpus totara and Clianthus puniceus, a conifer and a shrub respectively from New Zealand and Anopterus glandulosa, another evergreen shrub, but this time from Tasmania.
Finally Africa. As with plants from other parts of the world we can grow only those from the more temperate regions. A couple of woody plants that spring to mind are Afrocarpus gracilior, a conifer from the mountains of east Africa, and the shrub Myrsine africana which is native to similar places in both east and south Africa
Best represented is Asia, which theme is common to many gardens due to the huge numbers of plants introduced from China and the surrounding areas. Most of our rhododendrons are native to the Sino-Himalayan region of East Asia, spreading out into Upper Burma, North Vietnam and Japan, and many well-known and popular garden shrubs come from China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea; Pieris japonica, Magnolia sieboldii, Buddleja davidii and Mahonia japonica are classic examples from a list of hundreds. Some of the less common plants we grow from the area include Trochodendron aralioides, Rehderodendron macrocarpum, Carrieria calycina, Glyptostrobus pensilis and Camellia oleifera.
From Europe we have among others Rhododendron hirsutum and Rh. ferrugineum, Acer platanoides, the Norway maple and Picea abies, the Norway spruce, as well as several British native trees and shrubs - Crataegus monogyna, the common hawthorn, the hazel, Corylus avellana, and Quercus robur, the English oak.
North America has given us a few rhododendrons and many conifers including Picea breweriana, Brewer's Weeping Spruce, Cupressus macrocarpa, the Monterey Cypress, and the Western Hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla. Among the many broadleaved trees and shrubs we can count Ribes speciosum, the flowering currant, Betula papyrifera, the Paper Birch and Lyonothamnus floribundus subsp. aspleniifolius, the rather long-winded name for the Catalina Ironwood, endemic to the islands off the coast of California.
South America has a page of its own, so many wonderful natives do we grow. One or two could be mentioned here - Berberidopsis corallina, a severely endangered and vigorous shrubby Chilean climber, growing to 60 or 70ft on a larch, Philesia magellanica, a shrub in cultivation but also a climber in Chile and Puya berteroniana, a bromeliad - pineapple relative - of unspeakably spiky construction; put your hand into the rosette and it will never let you go! Not really a shrub, maybe, but then not really a perennial either!
We have a number of plants from Australasia, though we don't specialise in them as do some other west coast gardens. Some of the less common include Polyscias sambucifolius, an evergreen shrub from SE Australia, Podocarpus totara and Clianthus puniceus, a conifer and a shrub respectively from New Zealand and Anopterus glandulosa, another evergreen shrub, but this time from Tasmania.
Finally Africa. As with plants from other parts of the world we can grow only those from the more temperate regions. A couple of woody plants that spring to mind are Afrocarpus gracilior, a conifer from the mountains of east Africa, and the shrub Myrsine africana which is native to similar places in both east and south Africa