Lindera megaphylla Medicinal salt spray

salt spray

in sun or part shade and ordinary well-drained soil

sweetly fragrant

is grown above all for the extraordinary bark: smooth

and a long-standing favorite in our own garden

Lindera megaphylla Medicinal salt sprayLindera 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