13th July

…Four to six feet tall and perfect today. Thalictrum delavayi ‘Album’ Thalictrum delavayi ‘Album’ Thalictrum delavayi ‘Album’ What is this primula like thing flowering in July with ‘dock’-like leaves. Really…

4th June

…visit to Burncoose for meetings.Our Burncoose stock plant of Abutilon vitafolium var. album ‘Veronica Tennant’ by the mist houses. Abutilon vitafolium var. album ‘Veronica Tennant’ Abutilon vitafolium var. album ‘Veronica…

28th July

…Hedychium gardnerianum out rather earlier than with us. Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Crinum powellii ‘Album’ looking very fine and no slug damage! Crinum powellii ‘Album’ Crinum powellii ‘Album’…

22nd May

…known as Rhododendron catawbiense ‘Album’ tucked away by the Aucuba omiensis. Rhododendron catawbiense ‘Album’ Rhododendron catawbiense ‘Album’ Flowers still on Magnolia acuminata var. subcordata ‘Miss Honeybee’. Magnolia acuminata var. subcordata…

12th July

…house and onto the gravelled car parking areas. Is this exactly the same as what I photographed at The Lookout a few days ago? Possibly. Sedum album Sedum album The…

19th July

…flower – Gallium album growing in profusion at the top of Herreswater. Gallium album Gallium album Deutzia pulchra just going over. Deutzia pulchra Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ by the bonfire…

April 2024 Ireland Trip (Day 2)

…this name in the reference books but I wrote down what was said. Gaultheria glavca ‘Album’ Gaultheria glavca ‘Album’ Berries still on a huge clump of Cotoneaster x watereri or…

9th January 1897- 2020

…and Lord Falmouth often showed it over the years at autumn Garden Society dinners. Rhododendron nobleanum ‘Album’ Rhododendron nobleanum ‘Album’ New things for us to plant out in the next…

5th May

…flowers in our newish collection of c.30 species. Cotoneaster silverstrii Cotoneaster silverstrii Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’ – sub species of Rhododendron reticulatum perhaps? Surely a Rh. reticulatum subspecies would have some…

18th May

…on Magnolia ‘Anne Leitner’. Magnolia ‘Anne Leitner’ Viburnum sieboldii now in flower. A large erect shrub at 15ft or so. Viburnum sieboldii Viburnum sieboldii A young Azalea wadanum ‘Album’ flowering…

20th May

…still full of flower. Magnolia ‘Genie’ Rhododendron calendulaceum – Sandling Orange-Red Form Rhododendron calendulaceum – Sandling Orange-Red Form Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’ Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’ Another named form of Magnolia sieboldii….

3rd July

…Charm’ in flower. Euonymus hamiltonianus ‘Coral Charm’ Romneya coulteri and Abutilon ‘John Thompson’ outside the Packing Shed. Romneya coulteri and Abutilon ‘John Thompson’ Cyclamen hederifolium ‘Album’ full out already. Cyclamen…

10th July

…Phlox ‘Milly van Hoboken’ Phlox ‘Cool of the Evening’ – not so scented today. Phlox ‘Cool of the Evening’ Dierama pulcherimum var. album which we stock but have never flowered…

5th September

…Camellia ‘White Swan’ Camellia ‘Sundae’. Camellia ‘Sundae’ Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’. Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ An excellent crop of seedling Michelia doltsopa. Michelia doltsopa Solanum jasminoides ‘Album’ covered in flower. Solanum jasminoides…

15th August

…cross? Magnolia (M. laevifolia x M. championii) x (M. laevifolia x M. maudiae) Buddleja limitanea in flower. Buddleja limitanea Crinum x powellii ‘Album’ flowering its heart out beside the greenhouse….

11th November

…fine autumn colour. Lagerstroemia limii Lagerstroemia limii Seed heads and tail end flowers still on Escallonia bifida. Escallonia bifida Escallonia bifida Reasonable autumn colour on Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’. Rhododendron wadanum…

14th December

…Ceanothus ‘Dark Star’ with flowers. Ceanothus ‘Dark Star’ The magnolia tunnel all tidied and re-potted. See the before and after! magnolia tunnel magnolia tunnel Solarium jasminum ‘Album’ still with flower…

20th June

…Daphne Scott Harden’s garden in Durham. From the left Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’, C. controversa ‘Variegata’ and C. kousa with Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ and Abutilon vitifolium ‘Album’ on the right….

8th July

…coastal locations as here. Hypochoeris radicata Hypochoeris radicata I think this is Sedum angelicum – English stonecrop (it might possibly be Sedum album – white stonecrop). At first I thought…

6th October

‘Album’ with two flowers above Hovel Cart Road. R. nobleanum is apparently not a species? Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ Another Schefflera macrophylla planted out. Schefflera macrophylla Mallotus japonicus turning yellow. Mallotus…