Three early red Rhododendrons

Some early red  Rhododendrons
are starting to flower in the garden
at High Beeches.

Rhododendron barbatum

Rhododendron barbatum
(Subgenus Hymenanthes,
Subsect. Barbata).  A beautiful, large
shrub with coloured stems and reddish
flaking bark. The flowers are a vivid
deep scarlet carried in dense heads and
appear in March, one of the first
Rhododendrons to flower here at High Beeches.  A native of Nepal, Bhutan and northern India

Rhododendron spinuliferum

Rhododendron spinuliferum
Subgenus Rhododendron, Subsect. Scabrifolia)
the firecracker flower.  An unusual early
flowering rhododendron discovered by
Abbe Delavay and introduced in 1907.  The flowers are red, tubular with protruding stamens. It has been used in
Chinese medicine to treat asthma.

Rhododendron x Nestor

Rhododendron x Nestor
(barbatum x thomsonii) a beautiful red
hybrid raised by Sir Edmund Loder.

Garden opens for the Spring
Saturday 28th March

THREE BEAUTIFUL CAMELLIAS

Three beautiful Camellias in flower at

High Beeches Garden

Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'

Camellia japonica is a native of Japan and Korea.  Camellias are not native plants of China
although they have been grown there for
a long time as a garden plants.   They were
first introduced to Europe at the beginning
of the eighteenth century and originally
camellias were thought not to be hardy in England but the severe winter of 1928 proved otherwise.

There are now great number of cultivars.
Camellias are magnificent evergreen flowering plants some of which can reach up to 30 or
40 feet in height.  Without overhead shade the
flowers can be susceptible, in spring,to wind
and frost damage.

Camellia x williamsii 'J C Williams'

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Camellia  japonica 'Adolphe Audusson'
has red semi -double flowers and is
very vigorous.


Camellia x williamsii a hybrid between
japonica and saluenensis first raised by
J.C. Williams at Caerhays Castle in
about 1925.  One of the first cultivars
to be raised was named 'J.C. Williams',
pink, single and one of the most free
flowering of the camellias.

Camellia japonica 'tricolor'

Camellia japonica 'Tricolor', a single or
semi-double flower varying from white
with carmine streaks to pink with white
streaks.  It is a very reliable plant, free,
flowering and of spreading habit.

Garden reopens to visitors on 

Saturday 28th March