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Please note once despatched, your delivery may take 1-3 days due to the high volume with the couriers. Your plants will be fine during this time.
Full plant information & availability is shown online.
The nursery is now open to the public between 10am and 4pm. Please follow instructions on site, card payments only, no cash. Click and collect is also available.
THE CAFE & GARDENS ARE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Last updated 14/05/20 10:00.
STYRAX
Commonly known as Snowbell tree
All Flower JUN-JUL
Fragrant snowbell flowers presented as solitary, in pendent, terminal or axillary racemes or panicles, or produced in clusters on short branchlets.
Graceful trees for a woodland garden.
Genus of about 130 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees found in woodland or thickets in Europe, Asia, and North America, including Mexico.
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Deciduous
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White - 'Pink Chimes' is a delicate pink -
Tall Shrub
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Tree
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Hardy - very cold winter - Hardy in all of UK and northern Europe. Plant can possibly withstand temperatures down to -20°C (-4°F) -
Full sun - shelter from cold, drying winds -
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Additional Features - Good to know - - large shrub or small tree, of graceful habit. Attractive to bees. Good for woodland garden. Flowers on previous year's wood -
Pests & Diseases - trouble free -
Place of origin - Europe, Asia and North America -
Resistant to honey fungus - These plants have little or few problems with honey fungus.
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Flower Shape - Cup-shaped -
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Hardiness - Fully hardy -
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Scented Plants - Scented flowers -
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Soil Conditions - Fertile moist well-drained soil -
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Neutral to acid soil
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Wildlife - Bee friendly -
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Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 1) Collecting Seeds
- When is the right time to collect seeds?
- When are seeds actually ripe and ready for collection?
- Magnolia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Cornus capitata seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Rhododendron seed collecting - Video Tip ondemand_video
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 2) Storing Seeds
Shrubs and Trees - Seeds - 3) Planting Seeds
Styrax - Care Guide
Trees - Care Guide
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Checking ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Tree Survey - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Crown uplift - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing shoots below graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing peeling bark - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Maintaining variegation - Video Tip ondemand_video
Buy Varieties of STYRAX
STYRAX formosanus var. formosanus >
Commonly known as: Formosan snowbell, Snowbell tree.
The most beautiful of all the styrax with large white pendulous star-shaped flowers and distinctive smooth bark
STYRAX japonicus >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
Pendulous bell-like white flowers in profusion. A most attractive summer-flowering tree
STYRAX japonicus 'Evening Light' >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
A new styrax selection with dark purple leaves and white flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'Fargesii' >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
A more tree-like form with larger leaves
STYRAX japonicus 'Fragrant Fountain' >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
Weeping habit with pendulous, fragrant white flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'Pendulus' >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
A form with trailing branches which is best grown over a bank to look up into the flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'Purple Dress' >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
Purple leaves and white-pink flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'Sohuksan' >
Commonly known as: Japanese snowbell.
A vigorous form with large leaves and the largest flowers of any Styrax we have seen growing at Burncoose
STYRAX obassia >
Commonly known as: Big-leaf styrax, Fragrant snowbell.
Large ovate leaves and white bell-shaped flowers
STYRAX officinalis >
Commonly known as: Mediterranean storax, Storax.
Short drooping clusters of large fragrant flowers. Needs a warm sheltered site
STYRAX wuyuanensis >
Commonly known as: Snowbell tree.
A rare species with clusters of long white flowers
