Primarily from our own wild seed collections divided into 3 sections:
New cultivar names we are allocating or introducing
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Aspidistra aff. mushaensis 'Spotty Dotty' BSWJ1949
A new species to cultivation that we collected a plant of as long ago as 1993, from the small area of The Central Mountains of Taiwan, which it is endemic to. The species bears fat flower buds in July for us spreading their fleshy petals late in the month through to August or September. On this form the leaves are held on long stiff petioles, while the lanceolate-oblanceolate leaves are distinctly lightly dusted with creamy yellow spots and streaks.
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Aspidistra daibuensis 'Totally Dotty' BSWJ3236
A distinct form of this species, which we have grown for many years, originating from a single plant we selected from the forest overlooking the South Cross Highway, which was still only a track at that time in 1996. This form was distinct amongst the colony we found by the broad oblong-lanceolate leaves being more heavily spotted and streaked in white than any others. We hope to be able to offer plants of this selection in a year or two.
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Where they were distinct from previous plants we had encountered by their larger stature, a feature which is also continued into bearing larger than normal flowers, to almost 5 cm across, all be it with some gaps between the petals.
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Clerodendrum trichotomum ‘Shiro’ BSWJ4896
A cultivar name is here given to the form of this species which we introduced into cultivation in 2000 (although not listed in the RHS Plant Finder until 2003) from a collection gathered on the island of Shikoku, Japan in 1997 in the company of Dan Hinkley and Darrell Probst.
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With large pale green (in this form) aromatic leaves on strong upright branching stems. Bearing terminal tight corymbs of very fragrant white flowers, soon followed by deep blue berries on fleshy white (shiro in Japanese) calyces. This clone is a different collection to that found by Kew several years later in northern Japan.
This form is distinct from previous forms we have grown in that the foliage is a darker green with a tinge of bronze, while the upright stems and the mid-ribs of the leaves are more of an intense pink rather than red, features that come true from seed in our isolated stocks.
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Fuchsia microphylla ssp. hemsleyana ‘Silver Lining’ BSWJ10478
A silvery leafed selection from a seed collection we gathered from Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica at 2800m in 2004.
Where the shrubs only formed small congested bushes with tiny elliptic sometimes silvery leaves only 1.5cm long, with at that time rounded glossy black fruit in the leaf axils with still a few of the slender pink tubular flowers on the ends of the arching branches.
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Fuchsia microphylla ssp. aprica 'Dolly's Dress' BSWJ9101
A distinct selected seedling from a batch originating from one of our collections gathered at high altitude, almost at the summit of Volcán Zunil Quetzaltenango in Guatemala at 3250m altitude in 2001. From a small species to about 1.2m tall in cultivation, with tiny toothed leaves on upright twiggy stems bearing a continuation of large (for the species) flared bright pink tubular hermaphrodite flowers continuously for us even in the garden after -7C.
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Named after the vernacular name for this plant, Dolly Mixtures and for the dress shape of the bright flowers.
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Hedychium spicatum ‘Liberty’ BWJ8116
From seed I collected in Central Sichuan in 2000, where it formed slender plants covering vast areas with dark green glossy leaves on upright stems to 1.8m tall. A clump forming rhizomatous perennial, bearing a profusion of distinctly long and congested inflorescences in this form,
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of white scented flowers during late summer. Named for our granddaughter, Liberty Sophia Wynn-Jones, born in October 2006.
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Heloniopsis orientalis v. breviscapa 'A-so' BSWJ5850
One of our collections from the moist well drained forests on the steep sides of the Asõ Crater on Kyushu, Japan. A rosette forming, evergreen perennial, erupting into growth in spring, thrusting a single fleshy upright green flowering stem (scape) from the centre of each rosette.
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Dark purple at its tip in this form, crowned by an elongated cluster of flared fragrant pendant small lily-like flowers also on short dark stems (pedicels) and with dark ovaries, March-May 10-20cm tall.
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Heloniopsis tubiflora ‘Temple Blue’ BSWJ956
From one of our collections gathered close to a temple sited on the Odaesan mountain range in the cold north-east of South Korea in 1993. Where this rosette forming perennial formed clumps of tight circular prostrate rosettes of thin textured lance shaped leaves. With a sturdy slowly expanding green scape bearing a terminal umbel of nodding, blue-purple flowers in early spring.
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Hydrangea paniculata 'Yuan-Yang' BSWJ3804
Grown from seed of a very large, upright heavily flowering form of this species, with large sepals, from Yuan-Yang Lake, northern Taiwan.
In cultivation the leaves are darker and smaller than usual, on dark purple stems, flowering with large red-purple centred and veined sterile sepals, from July to Oct.
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Hydrangea serrata ‘Chiri-san Sue’ BSWJ4595
Named by Dan Hinkley back in 2001 in his legendary Heronswood catalogue (or should that be catalog), after my wife Sue. As well as the mountain of Chirisan, where I discovered the plant growing on a very steep moss-covered impoverished boulder strewn clearing in 1997, accompanied by Dan et al.
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The plant was immediately recognisable as bearing mid-blue double sterile flowers in that acidic ground. It didn’t take Dan long to scrounge a piece, the forlorn looks that a hungry dog gives you are nothing compared to this character. There was one condition though, he was not allowed to name it ‘Heronswood’s Blue’! We find the plant to be slow growing remaining a well branched shrub to less than a meter tall.
With similar coloration as the Japanese named ‘Kiyosumi’, but with larger more intensely coloured sterile florets of white edged cherry red. As well as the distinct feature of the leaves emerging and retaining the bronze colour. By some coincidence our collection was gathered on the opposite side of the same mountain as the named form above, a fact that brought to light in 2007.
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Roscoea purpurea 'Snow Goose' HWJK2169
A selection from a seed collection, gathered from a memorable site in the extreme north of eastern Nepal in 2002. From a steep cliff overlooking our improvised camp site, the school yard of the remote Cheng village, where westerners had not been seen for a generation. This selection is of a small stature with the sturdy green stems to normally only 30 cm tall bearing a succession of pure white flowers without even the slightest trace of any colour, from late July to November.
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We hope to be able to offer plants of this selection in years to come.
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Roscoea purpurea ‘Vannin’ HWJK2406
A superb selection of a superb species, which originates from a single plant I selected from the wild, growing just outside the village of Badung in the Mewa Kola eastern Nepal. Where we were ‘entertained’ by Maoist gorillas for a short while until we ‘paid for safe passage’.
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A tall selection to 1 meter growing in our open field, with dark reddish brown upright sturdy stems, complimented by large to very large (for the species) palest lilac streaked darker flowers late July to November. Named for our grandson Vannin Hunter Wynn-Gawne, who was born in July 2007. The name also relates to the keeper or the man in the Isle of Man.
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Tetrapanax papyrifer 'Di-Sue-Shan' BWJ12488
From a collection gathered at altitude on Dasyueshan in the west of northern Taiwan in 2007. A selection of this fabulously flamboyant shrub which in the wild forms small single stemmed trees to 5m tall, with huge palmately lobed leaves to well over a meter wide, with woolly ginger indumentum on the under-sides of the leaves.
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Topped by long panicles of pale flowers in autumn through winter.
The cultivar name is named for Diane Doughty an indispensable helper on our nursery as well as Sue, the better looking half of our nursery partnership.
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Tigridia orthantha ‘Red-Hot Tiger’ BSWJ10244
One of our collections we found growing in abundance in a Mexican forest on the moist mountains to the east of Oaxaca in 2004 at a lofty 2800m. With the growing habit similar to the familiar tiger lily, of arising from fleshy bulbous roots forming neat fans of upright pleated strap-shaped leaves to 50cm tall.
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But bearing dazzling red orange-yellow flecked flowers in this form, that are borne in succession on the terminal branched spikes just above the foliage for months from mid summer into autumn. (Syn. Rigidella)
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Tricyrtis formosana v. grandiflora ‘W-Ho-Ping Toad’ BSWJ6905
A large flowered variety which we collected in a restricted area near Hualien Eastern Taiwan, with Teng-Lang Yu in 1999. So distinct that we have finally relented as the flowers stand out for months by their sheer size, a much larger flower than any other we grow.
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Forming a lax much branched plant with many upwardly inclined widely opening funnel-shaped flowers to 6cm across heavily spotted purple-red, with yellow-tinged throats, on leafy stems to 75cm long from late July to November. Named for its whopping sized flowers, but pronounced in an Asiatic fashion.
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Zingiber mioga 'Crûg's Zing' BSWJ4379
A hardy (to -23C) edible ginger, from one of our collections gathered in the forests of Chejudõ the island between South Korea and Japan. Where it grew close to a dried riverbed forming a clump of thick perennial rhizomes with yellowish stems to 1m tall, bearing slender almost sessile leaves 40cm long by 7cm wide. |
With flowers opening lilac-pink from dark yellow buds in this form, in late summer at ground level close to the base of the leaf stems. Used as a garnish in Japanese cuisine.