That's great Brian! How tall and wide do you figure this tree to be? I have small 10 foot Eurcryphia x intermedia that is thick with blooms right now and alive with bees.
I should take a pic and post it.

Cheers, Barrie.

Hi Barrie. I believe this tree is over 50ft tall, but I don't know for sure how tall it is. I have heard Eurcryphia x intermedia does not get quite as tall, but that might be a good thing. The pictures above really don't do this tree justice. The flowers are much larger than I thought they would be. Most are 2" wide or more.

-Brian

How beautiful! I want one!

Lovely, is it fragrant ?

That tree is quite a spectacle.

My intermedia blossoms have a delicate honey-like scent that reminds me of wild morning glory blossom smell.

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A 50' eucryphia would be more than a little out of place in my tiny garden, but I despair of mine ever reaching any significant size. IME, growth is very slow and to compound that, I came home yesterday to discover the plant unappreciative housepainters have broken off several significant branches. Poor little thing will not even hit 4' this season and is yet to bloom.

I keep weighing my delight at a freshly painted house with the color of MY selection against the destruction that has occurred to my garden..........this has been a very stressful week.

Thanks for posting photos.

Too bad the house painters were (apparently) not receptive to being asked to be careful with the plants. Do they routinely destroy other kinds of property on other jobs? I drove by a building once in Seattle in time to see a worker lean out and eject some paint or similar material onto a willowleaf cotoneaster planted at the corner. A friend calls people who exhibit such cluelessness "opaque".

I had to wait a day to take these pics. The 90F (32C) heat and dry conditions made this Eucryphia beg for a watering. So here she is, my 10 footer, thick with bloom.

Cheers, Barrie.

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I have found that our little Northwest heat waves (3 days 90+F, etc.) do not bother the foliage or delicate blooms. An individual blossom will last 10-14 days before the petals fall.

Small eucryphias are very flexible, springing back from ice storm loads. The housepainters must have literally tore branches off. Sounds callous.

The painters and I had a bit of a communication problem - they are Guatemalan and I no habla espanol too good :-((

Their crew leader, who spoke great English, was only there first thing in the morning to give the day's instructions and while we talked about being careful with the plantings, I doubt that was on their primary agenda. To be honest, my garden would provide a challenge to any housepainter regardless of delicacy - it is just too fully planted. Considering what the damage could have been, nothing was permanently disabled - needing some remedial pruning perhaps and set back a bit, but that's about it.

The eucryphia will recover with a bit of trimming and the Pittosporum 'Garnettii' next to it looks like it came through unscathed. The Hebe 'Amy' referred to in another post took a bit of a beating but she was due for a good haircut anyway.

The paint job looks stunning, btw :-)