…nine expeditions by the great Chinese plant hunter George Forrest. JC also received just as many species of new Chinese plant seeds from Ernest Wilson. It was JC who, with…

…‘Chinese Garden’ Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Amid the sea mist a tent for another wedding on Beach Meadow. wedding on Beach Meadow…

…confusing. Both ‘Werrington’ and ‘Chinese Garden’ grew here 40 years ago but died of old age. Good that replacements are now well established. Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Betula…

…Chinese origin. We await the ‘hawthorn-like’ flowers sometime in the next few years. Osteomeles subrotunda A few 2017 planted magnolias in the Isla Rose are about to drop their flowers…

…just coming. Rhododendron moorii Betula albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ (syn. ‘China Rose’) with wonderful peeling bark. Betula albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Betula albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Wonderful trunks and bark on Lithocarpus hancei….

…The flowers do not look much like those on Tom’s either so this may not be correctly named? However I cannot see any other Manglietia species featured in the Chinese…

…species M. alba could be considered as the same as the Chinese M. beaniana beggars belief. M. oldhamii is again a species in its own right. To recap, we have…

…Chinese silkworm thorn. I had forgotten that we had planted this prickly horror but it is doing well. Extremely rare. Cudrania tricuspidata Cudrania tricuspidata Fruits well developed on Aristolochia sempervirens…

…by the Chinese as a bad omen. I wonder if China has a similar massive flowering in its bamboo species today?! I dare say the flat earth nutters on social…