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Past the Eucryphias we can see a huge Magnolia with thick grey shoots and large oval leaves growing in the private garden next to the Park. It is a white-flowered variant of Campbell's Magnolia, (Magnolia campbellii var. alba), which comes from the Himalayas. In Britain this tree is not much planted because it usually takes 30 years or so to flower and then frost, wind and rain at the wrong time can ruin the flowers. But in a mild March it is perhaps the most spectacular tree here, with its huge cup-shaped flowers looking as if a great flock of white doves has settled in its branches.
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This page last updated: 26/01/2005
