…starts for our new glasshouse along the top wall. Clearance work Canna ‘Tropicanna Black’ and Acacia longifolia out together. Canna ‘Tropicanna Black’ Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’ with ripe, black berries…

…Aronia. This is its first flowering here and certainly more Aronia than Sorbus! Sorbaronia ‘Likjornaja’ Sorbaronia ‘Likjornaja’ Sorbaronia ‘Likjornaja’ Our clump of three Betula insignis ‘Fansipanensis’ has not liked the…

…‘Rozanne’. Geranium ‘Rozanne’ Berries already on Aronia melanocarpa. Aronia melanocarpa Scirpus cernuus a new grass like thing which I had not seen before. Scirpus cernuus Scirpus cernuus Sorbus commixta ‘Olympic…

…Purple’ A few flowers on a batch of young Chitalpa tashkentensis ‘Pink Dawn’. Catalpa duclouxii Fruits already on Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn Magic’. Nearly, but not quite, edible. Aronia melanocarpa ‘Autumn…

…which are much the same colour with the same stripes up the sides of the tepals as in March. Magnolia cylindrica ‘Lv Xing’ Magnolia cylindrica ‘Lv Xing’ Aronia arbutifolia ‘Brilliant’…

…Sorbonaria fallax ‘Likjornaja’ in bud still (Sorbus x Aronia). A peculiar bi-generic hybrid but not as dull or uninteresting as you might think in flower in a week or two….