Crinodendron

I used to grow this in my previous garden which is, like my present garden, within a mile of the North Wales coast. As you have already seen a well-established Crinodendron in France you will be aware of its potential size, so I assume that size is not a problem. Hardiness was never a problem with me either, so it should be prefectly growable in SW England. What I *did* find a problem was that it is deeply unhappy in a windy situation, and it needs protection from prevailing winds, otherwise the foliage always looks terminally untidy. But providing you can give it a reasonably sheltered site then it should prove to be a star performer for you: in flower it is one of the most exotic-looking shrubs for any coastal garden in the UK - well, most of the UK, at any rate.

Einion Hughes,
Rhyl,
Denbighshire,
Wales...
where Coronilla glauca is currently nearly halfway through its 9-month flowering, and temperatures are in the high 40's/low 50's. It will all end in tears if we have a halfway decent frost, and we will, we will...
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