2nd April

…bit wind battered and off colour high up (planted 2011). Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ Magnolia ‘Paul Cook’ just coming with oddly recurved flowers. 2014 planted (Magnolia x soulangeana…

31st March

…Memory’ Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ First flowering here of Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’. Large plant on the drive at Burncoose. Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ with its first…

18th March

…Baby’ just out. Camellia ‘Gay Baby’ Camellia ‘Gay Baby’ Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ flowering as well as I have ever seen it above the Crinodendron Hedge. Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ The unnamed…

18th April

…although a slight pink tinge to the buds. Staphylea holocarpa Staphylea holocarpa Acer tegmentosum ‘Joe Witt’ just into leaf having been planted at Donkey Show in March. Acer tegmentosum ‘Joe

29th October

…– hints of yellow in the darker red. Cotinus coggygria ‘Smoky Joe’ Cotinus coggygria ‘Smoky Joe’ Cotinus coggygria ‘Young Lady’ – some yellow with the red. Cotinus coggygria ‘Young Lady’…

20th April

…M. soulangeana). Magnolia x veitchii ‘Avocet’ Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ – unimpressive as it is here. This is another Lunaplant/Gottschalk hybrid – M. ‘Purple Globe’ x M. ‘Joe McDaniel’. Magnolia ‘Strawberry…

13th March

…‘Betty Jessel’ Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ (M. ‘Joe McDaniel’ x M. ‘Purple Gaze’) is getting better and better. A good new addition to the Burncoose offering. Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ Magnolia ‘Strawberry…

8th May

…selected by Joe McDaniel of Illinois University. Another for the collection. Magnolia ‘Champaign’ The three Fairy Michelias all just out together in a row. Michelia ‘Fairy Blush’ – just out….

25th March

…best. Its parent is perhaps the best magnolia in the garden this week. Magnolia ‘Philip Tregunna’ Magnolia ‘Philip Tregunna’ Then the second wrongly labelled magnolia. It is labelled ‘Joe McDaniel’…

28th December

…see which is good news. Roe deer 2022 – CHW Acer tegmentosum ‘Joe Witt’ which is a remarkably good snake-bark maple. Acer tegmentosum ‘Joe Witt’ Now properly in flower all…