…Attractive young new growth and multi stemmed. Some flowers in bud; others over. In the 1960s we had a mature tree here but I cannot recollect it. Dipteronia sinensis Dipteronia…

…delicate bronzy new growth too and is already 8ft tall. Mahonia tonkinensis Dipteronia sinensis used to be a mature tree here but I never saw it in flower. Several failures…

…our young plants have actually flowered. Dipteronia sinensis Dipteronia sinensis Various suddenly dead rhododendrons in the drought. The last one is the elderly Rhododendron sinogrande which nearly died last summer…

…Dipteronia sinensis Dipteronia sinensis Rhododendron ‘Polar Bear’ full out by Georges Hut. Rhododendron ‘Polar Bear’ First flowering with us of the new Clethra monostachya. One for Asia to now propagate….

…the little used water tanks below the church. big leaf Rhododendrons big leaf Rhododendrons Plenty of elm-like pink seeds on Dipteronia sinensis. Dipteronia sinensis Dipteronia sinensis Hoheria angustifolia is covered…

…We purport to have several ‘Peachy’, but I suspect the plant outside the front gate is in fact wrongly labelled and is also a ‘Daybreak’. Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ Dipteronia sinensis just…

…Maddenia hypoleuca – flowers nearly over and leaves appearing. Maddenia hypoleuca Cercidiphyllum japonicum var. magnificum Cercidiphyllum japonicum var. magnificum Dipteronia sinensis Dipteronia sinensis Aesculus assamica Aesculus assamica Pinus ponderosa Pinus…

…clusters forming on Lithocarpus variolosus. Lithocarpus variolosus ‘Rabbit’s money’ (as we used to call elm seed as children) seed on Dipteronia sinensis. Dipteronia sinensis Hoheria sextylosa nicely in flower below…

…Magnolia kwangtungensis (Manglietia moto). Magnolia kwangtungensis The seed heads on Dipteronia sinensis have now gone pink. Dipteronia sinensis 2018 – CHW A tiny dead baby grass snake in the Rockery….

…Kalmia latifolia ‘Ostbo Red’. Kalmia latifolia ‘Ostbo Red’ Kalmia latifolia f. fuscata. Kalmia latifolia f. fuscata Flower heads on Dipteronia sinensis. Dipteronia sinensis Viburnum parvifolium nicely in flower on Hovel…