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Room with a View David Jewell ©Matt Pringle Room with a view David Jewell ew can enjoy such and both noteworthy subtle-pink, and a chocolate- F an interesting and champion trees. Nearby, with brown Forrest collection aesthetically pleasing view a vertical bole, fissured trunk (Forr 15381) (figs 3 & 4). A from their office window as and mop-headed crown, fine shrubby birch,B. calcicola I do: from Jermyn’s house at Pinus engelmanii (figs 1 & 2) (fig. 5), deserves closer the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, is a personal favourite; from inspection. It has an upright I have an aerial view of the Mexico, its evergreen, rough, habit, stout twigs and pointed Magnolia Avenue surrounded needle-like foliage is almost leaves with sixteen or more by woody plants established 25cm long. It twists and turns pairs of closely spaced here more than 50 years ago during windy weather and in impressed veins. Collected from around the world. winter, when the rest of the by plantsman Roy Lancaster, To my right are two fine garden is laid bare, it is majestic! it was found growing in examples of narrow-columned The area includes different limestone crevices in the Jade Dawyck beech trees, one forms of the Himalayan birch, Dragon Mountains of north purple and the other golden, Betula utilis, in shades of white, western Yunnan. To the left a dome of pale foliage rises above the avenue to reveal the Katsura tree from Japan, ©Matt Pringle ©Matt Pringle Cercidyphyllum japonicum; in autumn its foliage turns yellow to smokey pink and the candy-floss scent carries well on the lightest breeze. Rhododendrons and a wide range of camellias including sasanqua, japonica and williamsii hybrids complete the picture with their evergreen foliage and seasonal colour. Figs 1 & 2 Pinus engelmannii In 1977 the Gardens and Arboretum were gifted to Hampshire County Council, which remains the sole trustee and has responsibility for managing and developing the site. 27 ©Matt Pringle ©Matt Pringle Fig. 4 Forrest collection birch Fig. 3 Different forms of the Himalayan birch, Betula utilis (Forr 15381) (fig. 6) andM. c. ‘Charles Raffill’, South Africa, its flowers are The balance of evergreen together with a flash of notably long-lasting with and deciduous trees and white from the hybrid compact heads, waxy purple- shrubs adds key structural M. x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’, edged green petals, and its elements to the landscape, produce a sublime display. wide basal leaves bright green. It prefers a sunnier important in any garden The Magnolia Avenue (fig. 7) contains largely soulangeana position and is particularly however large or small. hybrids, which are a short- good for container planting Especially in winter they lived delight in full flower providing interest from late give height, shape, texture in April; their crowns summer through to the first and foliage colour, later have been lifted to enable frost; it should be used more providing a backcloth to perennials to thrive in their often. Adjacently Bergenia ‘Bressingham Ruby’ provides highlight the colourful borders, albeit with some shade. Here at the end of good winter foliage colour tapestry of perennial July is seen the quiet charm and lends itself to a variety of climbers, perennials and of Eucomis bicolor. From spring bulb associations using bulbs. All combined, the sum of their parts creates a cohesive whole and the effective plant associations ©Matt Pringle which we gardeners continuously strive to achieve. I know when spring has finally arrived when pockets of colour filter through the trees from the aristocratic pink Himalayan tree magnolias. In particular, M. campbellii Fig. 5 Shrubby Betula calcicola (left) next to a bust of Sir Harold Hillier 28 ©Matt Pringle ©Matt Pringle Fig. 6 Magnolia campbellii Fig. 7 The Magnolia Avenue Crocus tommasinianus, Scilla siberica, or the particularly To date the Sir Harold elegant snowdrop, Galanthus ©Matt Pringle ‘Magnet’. Indeed, there’s a Hillier Gardens has a flowering bulb to be found remarkably impressive for every month of the year to 416 champions in enrich plant combinations or total – more than any extend the period of display. other garden, adding Nearer the central path, another dimension Buxus sempervirens ‘Graham to the collection as Blandy’ provides evergreen well as to the Garden accents in winter, and from mid- summer onwards two Clematis landscape. Of course, it cultivars literally lift the is perfectly feasible to greenery, with purple-flowered grow a champion within C. ‘Jackmanii Superba’ and a domestic garden, which powder-blue-flowered you may wish to do after C. ‘Prince Charles’. Sometimes being inspired by a full- the simplicity of a single flower size specimen! can brighten a quiet corner Fig. 8 Populus x canescens ‘Macrophylla’ and white will always draw your eye, no more so than the May-floweringAllium nigrum; examples of their species the distinct white golf-ball because of their enormous size, flowerheads are repeated or great age, rarity, or historical ©Matt Pringle on both sides of the avenue, significance. A tree can be a helping to make the design champion because of its height, more cohesive. or girth, or both. It may be Champion trees have been designated in the Tree Register mentioned and all play their as the largest, i.e. the tallest part at The Sir Harold Hillier or having the greatest trunk Gardens. These are individual circumference at breast height Fig. 9 Lathraea clandestina trees that are exceptional (1.5m) of its kind in the UK. 29 It may also be a champion if cultivars. However, at the end it is the only known specimen of winter the real star of the in the British Isles, providing show may be seen growing it has a minimum height of at its base in the form of the ©Matt Pringle 2 metres and a girth not less purple toothwort, Lathraea than 20cm. clandestina (fig. 9). Increasingly It’s a pleasure to walk popular as a decorative garden around the Gardens to admire plant, it is a root parasite with our champion trees, but explosive seed capsules. It clearly there are far too many has rich mauve flowers borne for me just above ground and from a to describe them all here. distance you could be forgiven At 32m high, Picart’s for thinking it could be a type Poplar, Populus x canescens of orchid or crocus. It has ‘Macrophylla’ (fig. 8) is our been recorded growing on a tallest champion, growing wide range of plants both in on the northern bank of the the wild and in cultivation, pond. Few domestic gardens including poplar, willow, will be able to cope with alder, acer and hazel. Our its size, although the grey colony thrives in a damp foliage associates well with location with some shade other tall trees in this area of from the poplar, conditions the Gardens, particularly the which seem to suit it well as swamp Cypress, Taxodium it’s spread slowly as ripe seed Fig. 10 Sequoia sempervirens disticum, and several Nyssa is scattered. ‘Cantab’ Champion trees The Tree Register of the British Isles (TROBI), also known ©Matt Pringle as the Tree Register of Britain and Ireland, is a registered charity collating and updating a database of notable trees throughout Britain and Ireland. Founded in 1988 by dendrologists Alan Mitchell and Victoria Schilling (née Hallett), its success is due to a network of enthusiastic volunteer measurers. The database is an important tool in helping to locate champion trees, protect them, monitor their growth and their success in relation to their surroundings, study the associated wildlife and their historic management, and support work to propagate rare or exceptional specimens. Trees are measured using the American Forest system, whereby a points value is calculated based on the circumference of the trunk, and the height and the average spread of the crown. Anyone can nominate a tree, and most trees are nominated by non-specialists. Nominations are sent to the national register of big trees (or to the state registry in the USA); once a nominations is received, field work begins to confirm the tree’s size before it can be declared a champion. Fig. 11 Magnolia ‘Athene’ 30 ©Matt Pringle ©Matt Pringle Fig. 12 Magnolia fordiana Fig. 13a & b Gymnocladus dioica ‘Variegata’ It is more widely available now jacquemontii ‘Jermyn’s’ grows with specialist bulb suppliers in a mixed birch roundel at the and seed companies offering end of the Centenary Border. spring divisions. The vigour of ‘Jermyn’s’ is clear In another part of the to see, with its broad bole and Gardens known as Ten Acres tall crown, and as compared West, the conifer Sequoia with its neighbours it certainly sempervirens ‘Cantab’ requires space. (fig. 10) is superb as an As a possible future project, individual specimen, though I still have in mind retaining clearly most gardens have the existing groups of the insufficient space for such graceful wintergreen fern, a statement tree. However, Polystychum setiferum, and try placing large plantings interplanting them with larger of a lighter colour such as drifts of Lilium martagon. This Magnolia ‘Athene’ (fig. 11) in tough lily naturalises well and the foreground for effective is happy on acid or alkaline soil. (fig. 12). From mid-summer contrast against the dark foliage In June, the deep-pink flowers onwards the sporadic flowers background. ‘Athene’ has an are set all around the dark have noticeably thick tepals upright habit, white tepals stems and the reflexed petals and a centre of pinkish fading to pink at the base, and a contrast delightfully with the red stamens. In a sheltered hint of scent – a beautiful spring ginger anthers. Imagine the location it looks comfortable combination and its foliage will end result: the creamy birch with seasonal shrubbery last the whole season through.
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