…Trachycarpus fortunei but I have never seen the circle before? Trachycarpus fortunei with huge fan leaves Trachycarpus fortunei with huge fan leaves Trachycarpus fortunei with huge fan leaves Trachycarpus fortunei…

…Fan’ is well up the bank and had largely escaped. Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ The rhododendrons, lower down, had not. rhododendrons Dacrycarpus dacrydioides is making good headway as…

…hybrid Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Snow Queen’ (Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’ x unknown) Magnolia ‘Pickards Snow Queen’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Snow Queen’ Magnolia ‘Pink Flamingo’ Magnolia ‘Pink…

…oddly! Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Crystal’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Crystal’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Pink Champagne’ is not one I have seen out myself before. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Pink Champagne’ Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ also unfrosted. Another…

…dark brown leaves like the popular Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’. Lobelia ‘Fan Salmon’ Lobelia ‘Fan Salmon’ Rudbeckia ‘Tiger Eye Gold’ is a lowish growing good yellow but not quite Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’…

…in Old Park looking splendid from a distance today. Magnolia campbellii ‘Alba’ Magnolia ‘Lotus’ is yet another ‘white’. Not as good as ‘David Clulow’ or ‘Manchu Fan’ I think. This…

…summit of Fan Si Pan, Lao Cai County, P R Vietnam.Rhododendron suoilenhense. Grandia subsection. Forms a spreading tree well clad in very large silvery leaves. Primrose yellow flowers with a…

…like bamboos and all the constant renaming of the difficult enough specie names? They have their place I suppose but I am only a part time fan! Over the years…

…I have ever seen fan trained on a wall. A Cydonia rather than a Chaenomeles. quince Hedychium thrysiforme in the greenhouse. Needs heat in winter but attractive. Hedychium thrysiforme Osmanthus…