Flora

Weeds and Invasive Flora/Fauna

When the property was acquired by the present owner, the garden was infested with blackberry, montbretia, St Johns wort, English broom, privet and cotoneaster, all listed as noxious weeds under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993. Twenty other varieties of weed were identified on the property at that time. Large stands of cotoneaster and bamboo have been completely removed.

Our horticulturalists have significantly eradicated the weed infestation. The considerable growth of ivy on trees has also been systematically removed. The other weeds are dealt with during routine maintenance.

They are:

flatweed (in the lawn),
blackberry (particularly from National Park),
buttercup (creek banks)
montbretia (creek banks),
flickweed (creek banks),
herbaceous weeds (in the garden beds).

New Plantings of Trees and Shrubs

Trees

In pursuing the policy of consistency of cool climate plantings to enhance the values established by the heritage garden, established trees of the following types have been added to the garden over the past ten years:

Acer saccherinum – Silver Maple
Acer japonicum f.acontifolium – Japanese Downy Maple
Acer palmatum dissectum Inage Shidare – Weeping Japanese Maple
Acer palmatum reticulatum ‘Rubrum’ – Purple Leaf J.M.
Acer palmatum Sangokako – Coral Bark Japanese Maple
Acer platanoides – Crimson Sentry
Acer platanoides – Crimson King (Norway Maple)
Acer rubrum – October Glory – Red Maple
Betula pendula – Silver Birch
Betula pendula ‘Dalecarlica’ – Cut Leaf Birch
B. platyphylla szechuanica x B. pen. Purpurea ‘Crimson Frost’ – Purple Leaf Birch
Cornus florida – Dogwood
Cornus florida ‘Rubra’ – Red Dogwood
Cupressocyparis leylandii – Leighton Green/Castwellan Gold/Gold Rider/Naylors Blue
Fraxinus angustifolia Raywood – Claret Ash
Ginkgo biloba – Maidenhair Tree
Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Fastigiatum’ – Liriodendron – Tulip Tree
Malus floribunda – Japanese Crabapple
Malus floribunda ‘Pendula’ – Weeping Japanese Crabapple
Malus ioensis ‘Plena’ – Tall Standard Crab Apple
Malus ioensis ‘Purpurea’ Rubra – Crab Apple
Prunus campanulata – Flowering Cherry
Prunus Cerasifera ‘Nigra’ – Plum
Prunus persica ‘Versicolour’ – Persica Peach
Prunus serrulata ‘Sekiyama’ (Kanzan) – Flowering Cherry
Prunus ‘Shirotae’ Mt Fuji – White Flowering Cherry
Pyrus ussuriensis – Manchurian Pear
Rhododendron (species & cultivars) – Rhododendron
Salix babylonica var. pekinensis ‘Tortuosa aurea’ – Golden Corkscrew Willow
Salix matsudana ‘Tortuosa’ – Tortured Willow
Syringa hyacinthi ‘Cora Brandt’ – Lilac (white flowering)
Syringa vulgaris ‘Mme Lemoine’ – Fragrant Lilac (white flowering)
Tilia cordata – Linden Tree – Winter Orange
Ulmus glabra Camperdownii – Weeping Elm
Ulmus parvifolia ‘Todd’ – Chinese Elm
Ulmus procera ‘Van Houtii’ – Golden Elm

Flora

Weeds and Invasive Flora/Fauna

New Plantings of Trees and Shrubs

Trees

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