…nicely for the first time. Very different to the Illicium anisatum which we know well of old. Nice scent too. Illicium simonii Illicium simonii Then on to Trevena Cross garden…

…be Semiarundinaria fastuosa. We have planted Sasa veitchii in the Rookery windbreak but it did not prosper. We used to grow Pleioblastus simonii below Noahs Ark but this went when…

…simonii to me in flower. Illicium macranthum Asia’s propagation of Illicium floridanum (Florida anise) at Donkey Shoe also has a single flower. It normally flowers much later but I have…