Eriobotrya japonica

Re Tony Rodd's query about Bean's comments on the hardiness or otherwise of this in the UK:
 
It's possible we may now have hardier plants because they've been grown from seed from a different wild source - but I think the difference between current experience here and Bean's notion is probably just one more example of initially excessive caution being disproved by longer experience (and/or a run of milder winters!).
 
Certainly it currently flourishes even up here in the N.W. of England, though it needs to be carefully positioned - not so much in respect of frost as in respect of winds, which easily tear its mighty leaves.
 
Tim Longville
Cumbria
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