23rd May

…‘Intense’ Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Intense’ Rhododendron ‘Stardust Pink’ (stenophyllum ‘Linearifolium’ refined a bit) Rhododendron ‘Stardust Pink’ Forsythia x intermedia ‘Discovery’ Forsythia x intermedia ‘Discovery’ Armeria pseudoarmeria ‘Dreamland’ came second. Armeria…

30th March

…hyperythrum ‘Omo’ Lindera angustifolia against a blue sky. Lindera angustifolia Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’ just coming out. Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’ A really good young Magnolia nitida. Magnolia nitida Then the discovery

19th June

…Deutzia pulchra Deutzia pulchra In Old Park a new discovery never seen by me before. A huge mature clump of Rhododendron viscosum on the Top Ride with both white and…

8th September

…a plethora of chubby six-sectional seed heads forming on Hoheria angustifolia. Hoheria angustifolia 2018 – CHW This is a discovery! A mature evergreen euonymus species which I had never noticed…

14th October

…ripe as this. Another Crug Farm discovery. Cotoneaster hualiense A week ago I looked at a very few camellia seeds on this Camellia japonica variety and they were still green…

12th January

discovery. 2023 – CHW Camellia japonica ‘Volunteer’ is out early with quite a variation in the colour of its flowers as you can see here. Some redder and some pinker….

16th February 1897 – 2020

…pink stripes on the trumpets and those which are almost pure white in flower. A pleasing discovery. Jaimie cocked up the naming too. Rhododendron moorii is next door and obviously…