back to the 29th April Mount Stewart, then a few miles around the loch to Grey Abbey gardens. The last flowers on Rhododendron Rhododendron magnificum Rhododendron magnificum . Rhododendron ‘Dr…

…laevifolia x M. figo ‘White Caviar’ Rhododendron magnificum on the label but these huge flowers should be pink if it was absolutely true to name. Rhododendron magnificum Rhododendron magnificum A…

…kendrickii Rhododendron kendrickii Rhododendron kendrickii Rhododendron magnificum we thought. Rhododendron magnificum Rhododendron magnificum Magnolia soulangeana ‘Lombardy Rose’ is one we have in Penvergate. Quite good here and well worth a…

…Camellia ‘Gay Baby’ Rhododendron magnificum by Georges Hut. We need to do some trimming to give this plant more room. Only two flowers this year. Rhododendron magnificum Leujocum aestivum ‘Gravetye…

…protect it, flowers aplenty for the first time. Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron magnificum with its first flowers on the main ride. Rhododendron magnificum The two old Magnolia…

…bit of rain yesterday. Good for the newly planted things to get a good watering in. Last April was very dry and things suffered by mid-May. Rhododendron magnificum on Rookery…

…look back the flower and leaf was that of Rhododendron magnificum. The two are not that much different. I do not think we currently have Rh. magnificum. Here are two…

…defoliating in the drought. Here a Cercidiphyllum japonicum var. magnificum has turned early but retained all its leaves. Planted in 2005. Cercidiphyllum japonicum Here a 2007 planted Cercidiphyllum japonicum ‘Strawberry’…