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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Paddy Tobin on January 18, 2011, 08:54:11 AM
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This is a follow-up from a posting on Trees in Parks and Gardens:
A few years back, Mary and I visited the garden of the Natiional Collection Holder of Hamamelis, Pat Edwards, near Birmingham and not all that far from Ashwood Nurseries.
Here are a few shots.
Paddy
Hamamelis mollis 'Pallida'
Hamamelis mollis 'Sunburst'
Hamamelis mollis 'Well's Form'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Aphrodite'
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Hamamelis x intermedia 'Brigid'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Carmine Red'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Hillier's Cross'
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Hamamelis x intermedia 'Hintingbury'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jermyn's Gold'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Luna'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Nina'
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Hamamelis x intermedia 'Rubin'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Strawberries and Cream'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Vesna'
Hamamelis x intermedia 'Firecracker'
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Swallowhayes is a good collection, it is worth pointing out that her open day is coming up:
Witch Hazels in winter bloom
Enjoy the delicate flowers and fragrance of Hamamelis cheering up the dark days of winter with warming soup provided by the Shropshire Committee, as well as cakes, tea and coffee. Mrs Edwards' Winter Garden is open till dusk.
Event Location: Swallow Hayes, Rectory Road, Albrighton, Wolverhampton West Midlands WV7 3EP
Event Start Date: 23/01/2011 10:00
Contact details on Plant Heritage website.
As Paddy has shown it is a good visit, one of three National Collections, the others being in Sittingbourne and the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens. When we went it was a bit breezy, so we were encouraged to go around and cup the blooms to our noses. Great hilarity, but scents from sweet to spicy. Unfortunately you end up with a huge list of what you might like to buy in the future ;D
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I would plant many witch hazels if they hadn't been that expensive!
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Brian,
Like you, we found our visit a very funny one; certainly an entertaining experience and worth it.
Hoy, unfortunately they are expensive plants. We bought small plants which were not so highly priced and waited for them to grow. They are very pretty at this time of year.
Paddy
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I never knew there were so many. I cant remember the names but in garden centres over here all I see are the yellow, orange and red flowered plants
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Paddy, I'm looking for a very compact and slowly growing form of Hamamelis for my alpine garden.
Do you have any suggestion and if so where to order?
Ger
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Ger,
I'm afraid I don't know of any Hamamelis which remain small enough to use on an alpine garden. All, to the best of my knowledge, are medium-sized shrubs/small trees with a spreading habit.
H. mollis 'Pallida' in our garden is about 2.5m X 2.5m.
However, one planted in an alpine garden would take up little ground space and there would be plenty of room to plant underneath.
Paddy
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Thanks for showing us these lovely Hamamelis. I to never new there were so many varieties.
Its always a delight when they start to show there splendid colour at the start of the year.
Angie :)
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Lovely set of images Paddy, thanks. The last time I looked at a Hamamelis, albeit in a three litre pot, it was £35 at a local garden centre
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Paddy, I'm looking for a very compact and slowly growing form of Hamamelis for my alpine garden.
Do you have any suggestion and if so where to order?
Ger
Ger,
you must look for Hamamelis vernalis. The smallest I know is H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'. I knew a plant 20 years old with a high of 4 feet/ 1, 20 Meter. H. vernalis don't have large "flowers", but a smell :P :P :P. I can send you a PM of a nursery here in the area with a large collection of Hamamelis, where I get 'Quasimodo' after 2 years of waiting.
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Sadly my Dialup connection will not allow me to see right to the end of this thread, so I have no idea if anyone has asked this. What sort of entrance fee was charged? There is no mention of it on the Plant Heritage site. It would seem a shame to drive all the way there and then find one was asked for an exorbitant sum to get in. Even last years figure would help. TIA.
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Sadly my Dialup connection will not allow me to see right to the end of this thread, so I have no idea if anyone has asked this. What sort of entrance fee was charged? There is no mention of it on the Plant Heritage site. It would seem a shame to drive all the way there and then find one was asked for an exorbitant sum to get in. Even last years figure would help. TIA.
The NGS site states £3.50
http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=6652 (http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=6652)
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Uli,
Many thanks for the information re H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'. It isn't one I seen or heard of but it sounds delightful. You might post a photograph if possible as it would be a very different and interesting one to see.
Paddy
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Paddy,
thanks for these pics of these wonderful shrubs.
They are pretty expensive here as well as they are all grafted. We certainly don't have a great variety in Australia and the two we had planted did not last long, presumeably due to the hot and dry conditions (well, not this summer, so far!) but I'm so tempted to try again after seeing these pics and remembering the scent. If that fails I'll just have to visit the appropriate gardens each winter!
cheers
fermi
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The NGS site states £3.50
http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=6652 (http://www.ngs.org.uk/gardens/gardenfinder/garden.aspx?id=6652)
Thanks Diane, going blind in my old age, could not find this info yesterday. Odd that we have been to David Austin Roses in Albrighton and Ashwoods and Webbs without seeing the place.
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Thanks Diane, going blind in my old age, could not find this info yesterday. Odd that we have been to David Austin Roses in Albrighton and Ashwoods and Webbs without seeing the place.
"Webbs" actually backs onto Swallow Hayes. Webbs used to be called "Roses and Shrubs" and was owned by the Edwards of Swallow Hayes.
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Thanks for wuch a wonderful selection/collection of pics Paddy. Our H. mollis 'Pallida' came into flower at the weekend, a little late this year as it is often flowering on New Years Day. I always look forward to as it heralds the Spring.
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Glad you enjoyed them, Fermi and Shelagh.
Paddy
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I was not aware of H. vernalis 'Quasimoto', so I searched and see that it available in the USA as well. Good to know that there is a dwarf or small growing witchhazel out there. Here are some links:
H. vernalis 'Quasimoto' (shrub view, not flowering)
http://www.rarefindnursery.com/index.cfm/action/productdetail/product_id/5338.htm
more Hamamelis at RareFind Nursery, not the newly found species H. ovalis from Mississippi.
http://www.rarefindnursery.com/index.cfm/action/displayProducts/level/3|170.htm
H. vernalis 'Quasimoto' - flowering:
http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/current_plantings/current_plantings_details.php?serialnumber=0066661
http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/photography/photograph_collection/photograph_collection_results.php?image=&date=&photographer=&personinshotnames=&country=&usstate=&city=&location=&garden=&building=&event=&keywords=&othernotes=&lecturetext=&allplantnames=&allcommonnames=&allfamily=&allplantnameserialnumbers=117419 (http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/photography/photograph_collection/photograph_collection_results.php?image=&date=&photographer=&personinshotnames=&country=&usstate=&city=&location=&garden=&building=&event=&keywords=&othernotes=&lecturetext=&allplantnames=&allcommonnames=&allfamily=&allplantnameserialnumbers=117419)
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"Webbs" actually backs onto Swallow Hayes.
Oh dear, another reason to visit 8)
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Paddy, thank you for showing rich range of Hamamelis! I love them very much for flowering when snow is still covering the ground. They are really the first flowers of spring. Only H. vernalis and H. virginianus are hardy here.
H. vernalis 'Quasimoto'
I am looking for it for many years. :-\
Species H. vernalis is high and looks like hazel.
(http://cs1254.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/14408998/x_84c719b4.jpg)
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@ Paddy,
Marc Mc was faster. A very good picture of a flowering H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'.
@Olga,
nice to see a picture of H. vernalis. Never see it before. I like the "little" flowers and the smell.
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'Quasimodo' looks like a very nice shrub, a tidy habit for a small area in the garden. Good colour also, that marmalade shade is a nice change from the more common yellows.
Olga,
Nice H. vernalis. Good garden plant. They're a good shrub for this early time of year when little more is available.
Paddy
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Olga, nice picture and plant.
I haven't come across H vernalis for sale here yet but it is a shrub I am looking for.
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Paddy, I'm looking for a very compact and slowly growing form of Hamamelis for my alpine garden.
Do you have any suggestion and if so where to order?
Ger
Ger,
you must look for Hamamelis vernalis. The smallest I know is H. vernalis 'Quasimodo'. I knew a plant 20 years old with a high of 4 feet/ 1, 20 Meter. H. vernalis don't have large "flowers", but a smell :P :P :P. I can send you a PM of a nursery here in the area with a large collection of Hamamelis, where I get 'Quasimodo' after 2 years of waiting.
Many thanks for your information. In the mean time I found a nursery here in the Netherlands in Boskoop. Good plants for sale from Hamamelis vernalis 'Quasimodo' for Euro 22.50
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Many thanks for your information. In the mean time I found a nursery here in the Netherlands in Boskoop. Good plants for sale from Hamamelis vernalis 'Quasimodo' for Euro 22.50
Oh, sounds good..... do they make mail order?
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Some for reason when discussing H. vernalis 'Quasimoto', I conjure up an image of a small decumbent shrub that develops a large woody burl off to one side ;D
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Some for reason when discussing H. vernalis 'Quasimoto', I conjure up an image of a small decumbent shrub that develops a large woody burl off to one side ;D
With bell shaped flowers? ;D