…started in the usual rain but improved. Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ out in the sun in the nursery. Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’ The…

…last Tuesday. Enjoys a hot dry spot here. Quercus trojana Quercus trojana Quercus trojana Rhododendron loderi ‘Coral Pink’ in the Loderi Walk. Rhododendron loderi ‘Coral Pink’ Rhododendron loderi ‘Coral Pink’…

…Hauber’ Malus ‘Royal Beauty’. Malus ‘Royal Beauty’ Malus ‘Royal Beauty’ 2022 – CHW I thought I heard a cuckoo earlier this week but I definitely did in Old Park last…

…brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ is very fine and black as it opens. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Another new one to us flowering for the first…

…flowers on Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Flowers on Ilex yunnanensis which is developing well as an upright shrub. At Rosemoor it is used as…

…Beauty’ – another one out in the Kitchen Garden. Malus ‘Royal Beauty’ The Gunnera beds in Old Park are taking off. Some of these leaves have grown at least a…

…these quite good plants. Magnolia ‘Pickards Coral’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Coral’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Coral’ These Rhododendron ririei came from a Tom Hudson collection. The three plants are all a bit different…

…reticulatum perhaps? Surely a Rh. reticulatum subspecies would have some evergreen leaves? Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’ Staphylea colchica ‘Black Beauty’ now into leaf. It will get darker yet. Staphylea colchica ‘Black…

…camellias again after so long. Camellia ‘Admiral Spry’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lasca Beauty’ with one flower out and huge buds. Camellia reticulata ‘Lasca Beauty’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lasca Beauty’ The clump of…

…their last flowers destroyed in hailstorms two weeks ago. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ A troika of tiny flowered Camellia ‘Coral Bright’, ‘Fairy Blush’ and ‘Fairy Wand’. Camellia ‘Coral Bright’, ‘Fairy Blush’…