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    My friend has this bush/tree covered with white flowers - does anyone know what it is?
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    The flowers look like Romneya coulteri but the foliage isn't right :scratch:
     
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        Rats, rats, rats! That's the one I was trying to think of :roflol: Tried and failed to grow Romneya and Carpenteria :sad:
         
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          Ah, many thanks! My friend though it had something to do with California. I will tell him, he'll be very pleased.
           
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            Yes, Mrs Google is right, it is Carpenteria californica, mine is flowering right now. They are slightly tender bushes although I don't wrap it in fleece during the winter any more.

            On our NGS Open Days, it was the most talked about plant we'd got and you don't see it very often.
             
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              It's lovely...how does it cope with wet conditions @lizzie27 ?
               
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