7th August

…do this before. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ 2019 – CHW Another better flower on Magnolia kwangtungensis (Manglietia moto). Too…

27th February 1897 – 2020

…and very fine today. Best camellia in the garden today? Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ Rhododendron moupinense in its prime too. Rhododendron moupinense…

10th April

…cinnabarinum? Is it lepidote or elepidote – need to check. MAGNOLIA ‘Raspberry Fun’ MAGNOLIA ‘Raspberry Fun’ aka ‘Leonard Messel’!! Jim Gardiner puts me firmly right in an email on Magnolia…

4th September

…planting) one of which is as near red as any I have seen. I have an article on Burncoose about propagating Camellia seeds. Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ 1991…

12th November

…blown away in the gales. Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ with a great show outside the back yard. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ Magnolia x loebneri…

25th February 1897 – 2020

…Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ – first few pink flowers here and there. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ 2018 – CHW…

31st January 1897 – 2020

…the garden without a rush but still the magnolias rush out! Outside the back yard Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ has a pink flower or two right at the top…

27th November

…now on Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ outside the back yard. Attractive today. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ First flowers on Azalea ‘Hinomayo’ as early as usual. Just the odd…

27th October

Messel’. Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’ Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ just finishing flowering. Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ 2022 – CHW A press release from the RCM Group attached. Several of…

24th April

…plant by the lodge at Burncoose which is called ‘Tebotan’. Azalea ‘Tebotan’ The very last flower on Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ outside the Back Yard. I was asked if…

12th April

…Magnolia ‘Dark Bird’ Magnolia ‘Dark Bird’ 2022 – CHW The three-phase electric cables awaiting connection outside the back yard. electric cables Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ showing its full colour…

4th April

…x brooklynensis ‘Titan’ Rhododendron ‘High Sheriff’ (Caerhays/FJW bred) is just opening. Rhododendron ‘High Sheriff’ Rhododendron ‘High Sheriff’ The Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ is nearly full out outside the back…

13th March

…original Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ has, thankfully, escaped the frost reasonably well particularly lower down. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ First flowers on Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ outside the…

15th February

…loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ Salix gracilistyla ’Mt. Aso’ in the garden and at the sales point. What a spectacular bush this is at this time of…

29th March

…‘Raspberry Fun’ is just coming out in Kennel Close. This smaller growing magnolia will have great public appeal and is a great improvement on ‘Leonard Messel’. This is Symplocus dryophylla…

2nd April

…loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ x Magnolia salicifolia) Magnolia ‘Lucy Carlson’ Magnolia ‘Lucy Carlson’ Magnolia ‘Crystal Chalice’ Magnolia ‘Crystal Chalice’ Magnolia ‘Crystal Chalice’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x Magnolia ‘Serene’ (no name as…

16th September

…hoist in the new transformer into the back yard. No damage to the Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’ so far. new transformer new transformer The electrical connections to the mains under the…

25th March 1897 – 2020

‘Leonard Messel’ and Magnolia salicifolia. Pink in bud opening white. Not sure that I have seen this one out before. Quite nice and a good shaped plant. It will be…

14th March 1897 – 2020

…kobus x M. stellata (ie a x loebneri) seedling from Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’. As I have written before this is a very good floriferous magnolia for smaller gardens….