…Messel’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ 2019 – CHW Another better flower on Magnolia kwangtungensis (Manglietia moto). Too high up to smell it. Pale-ish creamy…

…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…

…reticulatas (?1931 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…

…back yard. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ The flowers are not quite out on Sarcocca hookeriana var. digyna. It will not be long. Sarcocca hookeriana…

…something with even more yellow flowers, possibly Rhododendron concatenans or Rhododendron cinnabarinum? Is it lepidote or elepidote – need to check. MAGNOLIA ‘Raspberry Fun’ MAGNOLIA ‘Raspberry Fun’ aka ‘Leonard Messel’!!…

…in 24 and 48 hours. magnolias outside the Back Yard magnolias outside the Back Yard First couple of flowers on Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’…

…x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ outside the back yard. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ The beech tree trunk nearly finished despite brief very heavy showers with a bit of hail. beech…

…‘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 range. Magnolia x loebneri…

…quite the 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…

…seen. Sorbus hemsleyanus ‘John Bond’. Very white undersides to the leaves. Sorbus hemsleyanus ‘John Bond’ Sorbus ‘Wisley Gold’. Sorbus ‘Wisley Gold’ Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’. Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’ Mahonia x media…

…williamsii ‘November Pink’ Another Pieris with very advanced flower buds. Pieris 2017 – CHW Total leaf drop now on Magnolia x loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ outside the back yard. Attractive today….

…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…

…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…

…‘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 yard in front of…

…Shan’ Magnolia ‘Lu Shan’ Rhododendron hodgsonii – this plant flowering for the first time that I have seen Rhododendron hodgsonii Magnolia ‘Lucy Carlson’ (M. loebneri ‘Leonard Messel’ x Magnolia salicifolia)…

…and look terrible again. Catalpa bignonoides Catalpa bignonoides 2017 – CHW Western Power hoist in the new transformer into the back yard. No damage to the Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’ so…

…in Kennel Close. This smaller growing magnolia will have great public appeal and is a great improvement on ‘Leonard Messel’. This is Symplocus dryophylla full out. The flower is perhaps…

…‘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…

…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….