Sentences with phrase «exotic rhododendrons»

Watson, who is co-ordinating the garden's role in revising and translating a major compendium of Chinese flora, says that the garden grows 6000 collections of plants from China, specialising in exotic rhododendrons, poppies and primulas.

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The seventeenth - century villa houses many masterpieces of Italian art whilst the colourful gardens, described as «a place of heaven», feature plantings of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias as wells as exotic plants, bamboos, ferns and ancient cedar and sequoia trees.

The extensive landscape garden has at its centrepiece a magnificent lake, reflecting classical temples, mystical grottos and rare and exotic trees and, amid the rhododendrons and azaleas, there are plenty of lawns to have picnics on.