11th April

‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Cup Cake’ has a silly name and insignificant flowers that have been battered and are nothing ‘cup’ or ‘cake’ like. Crap! Magnolia ‘Cup Cake’…

18th March

…‘Pegasus’ really. Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Livingstone’ is good. Oddly Jaimie bought a small grafted plant of this at Rosemoor on Saturday. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ x Magnolia ‘Vulcan’. Magnolia…

2nd March

…flowers with white flecking on Camellia ‘Anticipation Variegated’ by Burncoose Lodge. Camellia ‘Anticipation Variegated’ Camellia ‘Anticipation Variegated’ A good bit of laurel hedge cutting. laurel hedge One of the two…

17th March

…Magnolia ‘Burgundy Star’ Magnolia ‘Royal Crown’ nicely out in a tunnel. Magnolia ‘Royal Crown’ Magnolia ‘Royal Crown’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ likewise. Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Rhododendron russatum now full out and…

29th March

…‘Mikinori’ Prunus incisa ‘Pendula’. Prunus incisa ‘Pendula’ Prunus incisa ‘Oshidori’ not quite out as yet. Prunus incisa ‘Oshidori’ Then to Old Park as the rain eased. Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ (M. cylindrica…

11th January

…out the wind and under draft. Good thinking! Cut back one Camellia ‘Debbie’ First flower (frosted) at the very top of Camellia ‘Anticipation Variegated’. Camellia ‘Anticipation Variegated’ Still a good…

7th April

…Cup’ Magnolia ‘Gold Cup’ Magnolia ‘Livingstone’ Magnolia ‘Livingstone’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Even the Gunnera manicata bed is badly frosted. Gunnera manicata This mystery rhododendron is not quite Rhododendron arboreum…

2nd April

…‘E G Waterhouse’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Debbie’ and Camellia japonica ‘Paul’s Apollo’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Debbie’ Camellia japonica ‘Vittoro Emanuele II’ Camellia japonica ‘Vittoro Emanuele II’ Camellia x japonica ‘Anticipation’…

25th March

…‘Gold Cup’ Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ – quite a longstanding and well known hybrid soon to be superseded by better. From memory a Magnolia denudata form? Magnolia ‘Anticipation’ Magnolia ‘Purple Dream’ x…

12th December

…flower still on Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ on Rookery Park. Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ First few flowers high up on Camellia x williamsii ‘Anticipation’. Much earlier than usual despite the cold. We…