Liquidambar styraciflua and its cultivars

The species itself of Liquidambar styraciflua is generally only available grown from seed. Thus you encounter the usual problem of variability. It might have good autumn colour or it might not! To remove this element of chance, we graft all our Liquidambars, so that we can maintain certain features.

Autumn colour is obviously important, but there are a surprisingly wide range of options to extend the interest further through the summer. Perhaps by foliage variegation, or more subtly by leaf shape and growth habit. Most of the green forms will make big trees, but the variegated derivatives at approx. 4m are suited to all but the tiniest garden.

We are increasingly growing these on their own roots (as opposed to grafting them) which is a very exciting breakthrough.

Hillier's advises it to be unsuitable on chalk, but one of my customers was telling me how well theirs was doing there... So give it a try and see!

The autumn colours have to be some of the best!

I have spectacular specimen sized plants of many cultivars, both pot grown and root-balled (all grown here in Somerset, not imported). If you are interested in buying something a little bigger, then please ask for details.