Another Silver Queen

Here's a shrub much loved by foliage ferrets (flower arrangers) everywhere, this is 'Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver queen' and it is totally hardy no matter what you might hear. The tenuifolium species make a charming large shrub of columnar habit and true, they are not all hardy, but this one I grew from a cutting ten years ago has flourished at Eggleston Hall Gardens which is almost 1000ft above sea level. It is used extensively in floristry which is why it has been used at Eggleston, so the posh birds at the finishing school had some foliage to put in their bouquets.

The leaves of Silver Queen are suffused silver-grey and narrowly margined with white. It was introduced around 1880 and awarded an award of merit in both 1914 and 1984.