Plants in the Hortus
Many of the plants described here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861. A large number of additional plants were identified from correspondence, gardening notebooks and other documents surviving in the archives. The Hortus attempts to describe all the plants grown in the gardens at Camden Park and those grown in horticultural enterprises such as orchards and vineyards and includes plants grown outside the gardens in the park-like environs of the Camden Park estate. The Hortus plants served a wide range of purposes in the 19th century household; as ornament, living fences, fibre, dyestuffs, medicines, food and drink from the garden, orchard and vineyard and many others.
Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims var. alba
See Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims. Alba is a naturally occurring variety with white flowers with a dark centre. [RHSD, Hortus].
Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims var. aurantiaca
See Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims. Aurantiaca is a naturally occurring variety with orange or yellow flowers with a dark centre. [RHSD, Hortus].
Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims var. fryeri
See Thunbergia alata Bojer ex Sims. Fryeri has pale yellow flowers with a white centre, probably naturally occurring. [RHSD].
Thunbergia chrysops Hook.
Frost tender annual climber with heart-shaped leaves and blue-violet to purple flowers with yellow eyes in early summer. To 90cm. [RHSD].
Thunbergia coccinea Wallich
Frost tender evergreen, perennial, twining climber with tubular orange-red flowers in loose, pendant racemes from winter to spring. To 8m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Thunbergia fragrans Roxb.
Frost tender, perennial, woody-stemmed climber with triangular leaves, to 7.5cm, and solitary fragrant white flowers with spreading lobes,in summer. To 3m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Thunbergia grandiflora Roxb.
Woody twining climber with ovate or lance-shaped leaves, toothed or lobed, and blue, occasionally white flowers, sometimes in drooping racemes. [RHSD, Hortus].
Thysanotus isantherus R.Br.
Frost-hardy, tuberous-rooted perennial with purple, fringed flowers.
Thysanotus juncifolius (Salisb.) J.H.Willis & Court
Frost-hardy herbaceous plant with rush-like foliage and a slender, loosely branched inflorescence of a few purple, fringed flowers in spring and summer. [RHSD, FNSW, Beadle].
Tibouchina heteromalla Cogn.
Shrub with broadly ovate leaves and purplish-violet flowers, to 3cm across. To 1.5m. [RHSD].
Tigridia pavonia (L.f.) DC.
Bulbous perennial with a basal fan of lance-shaped leaves and a succession of iris-like, orange to pink, red, yellow or white flowers, mostly with contrasting central marks, borne on occasionally branched stems in summer. To 1.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Tigridia pavonia (L.f.) DC. var. conchiflora
For a basic description see Tigridia pavonia (L.f.) DC. The variety conchiflora has rich yellow flowers.
Tigridia pavonia (L.f.) DC. var. splendens
The flowers of Tigridia pavonia are very variable in colour. Splendens is undoubtedly a variety with distinctive flowers. There are references to a number of varieties in the modern literature including splendens, but I have found no specific description. The modern splendens may not be the same as the Victorian variety of that name.
Tilia x vulgaris Hill.
A hybrid, Tilia cordata Mill. x Tilia platyphyllos Scop. Fully hardy, broadly columnar tree with ovate leaves, to 20cm long, and pendant cymes of up to 15 yellow flowers in midsummer. To 14m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Tillandsia setacea Sw.
Epiphytic perennial with erect, rigid leaves, to 30cm long, and flowers in dense spikes with red, yellow-edged bracts, each bearing a tubular white flower. [RHSD, Hortus].
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