To be found on the west side of the Syringa Avenue.

A gift of George Marshall who purchased it from The Gobbett Nursery, Farlow, Kidderminster, Worcestershire in November 2017.

Syringa × hyacinthiflora hybrids were originally the result of crosses between Syringa oblata and Syringa vulgaris by Victor Lemoine (1823-1911) in 1876 in Nancy, France.

‘Pocahontas’  was bred in 1935 by Frank Skinner (1882-1967), Hardy Plant Nursery, Dropmore, Manitoba, Canada who selected and bred plants suited to the extreme prairie climate.

Pocahontas (c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman, the daughter of a chief. She was captured, held for ransom by colonists and converted to Christianity. She married the tobacco planter John Rolfe in April 1614 at the age of about 17 or 18 and played a significant role in the relationship between the English settlers and the Powhatan people in the early days of the Jamestown colony. In 1616, the Rolfes travelled to London where she was presented to English society as an example of the “civilised savage” in the hope of stimulating investment in Jamestown. She died at Gravesend, Kent.

Pocahontas means ‘playful one’.