…cross between sycopsis and parrotia. Both are excellent for early spring colour as an alternative to hammamellis. Sycopsis sinensis Sycopsis sinensis Sycopsis sinensis I have never seen Lonicera nitida ‘Tidy…

…very fine larger growing species. Deutzia pulchra Deutzia pulchra Sycopsis tutcheri with reddish flowers rather like a hamamelis. Should not a sycopsis only flower in January/February? Perhaps not this species….

…showing at the end of the twigs may yet turn into early spring flowers. It is clearly an evergreen species with a dainty leaf arrangement. Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis…

…thing of the past. Rhododendron sinogrande Sycopsis yunnanensis is genuinely an evergreen. Sycopsis yunnanensis Sycopsis yunnanensis Sycopsis yunnanensis Peumus boldus in full flower. Peumus boldus 2024 – CHW Another storm…

…Sycopsis sinensis Sycopsis sinensis Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ just out. Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ Small Liquidambar styraciflua with just a few purple-red leaves remaining at the top of the plants. Liquidambar styraciflua…

…the fullest sun at the top of this 2014 planted evergreen shrub or small tree have flowers. Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri Magnolia ‘Susan’ a bit rain battered but still with…

…Sycopsis tutcheri having its second flowering. Perhaps I now agree that its new name of Distylium racemosum is correct! Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri 2024 – CHW A tour with the…

…say this is Distylium racemosum but I am not at all sure that I agree). A small evergreen shrub growing well in full sun. Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri Still flowers…

…to debate but the flower does look Sycopsis-like to me! Nothing in ‘New Trees’ to enlighten us further. Sycopsis tutcheri These snowdrops were dug in the green from The Vean…

…Frost damage to the newer growth on the scented rhododendrons. scented rhododendrons Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Grandiflora’ at its best. Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Grandiflora’ Sycopsis sinensis nearly evergreen. Sycopsis sinensis Sycoparrotia semidecidua leafless…

…are a great improvement on Sycopsis sinensis which is the same cross the other way around and photographed last week Parriotopsis jacquemontiana Parriotopsis jacquemontiana 2016 – CHW One of the…