Photinia

If you live in the UK, you’ll likely be familiar with the popular Photinia x fraser ‘Red Robin’, a cultivated man-made hybrid of this plant. Though often used for hedging, this versatile plant has many other species and cultivars that make attractive garden plants for shape and form, but also for flower and persistent fruit. The Gardens’ Photinia collection contains 92 individual plants.

Mostly considered to be shrubs, some species can make evergreen, flowering trees. Photinia serratifolia, for example, is a small-medium sized tree with umbels of white flowers in late spring, followed by red fruits in late summer/autumn.