Lindera megaphylla Medicinal and the whole plant breathes

and the whole plant breathes a rich

in sun or part shade and ordinary well-drained soil

Seed reached Western growers through the plant explorer Frank Meyer in 1919

arriving at the exact moment most gardens have run out of options

and asks only full sun and sharp drainage

Lindera megaphylla Medicinal and the whole plant breathesLindera megaphylla is a plant for the patient collector, a broad leaved evergreen of real presence and pedigree that reveals itself over seasons rather than days. The species comes from the mist laden mountain forests of western China, where the shrub grows in dappled light among rhododendrons and ancient oaks. Sir Harold Hillier, the great British plantsman, first shared this rarity with Western gardens in the 1970s from his famous nursery, and even