19th January

…just 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…

10th March

…Magnolia x veitchii) – Gresham 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’…

27th March

…wild violets. wild violets Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ is well up the bank and had largely escaped. Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ The rhododendrons, lower down, had not. rhododendrons Dacrycarpus…

5th March

…‘Pickard’s Pink Champagne’ is not one I have seen out myself before. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Pink Champagne’ Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ also unfrosted. Another pretty near all white Gresham hybrid. Magnolia ‘Manchu

30th July

…consider as we buy a few plants for the Backstay garden.Lobelia ‘Fan Salmon’ is a pleasant pink with dark brown leaves like the popular Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’. Lobelia ‘Fan Salmon’…

18th March

…another ‘white’. Not as good as ‘David Clulow’ or ‘Manchu Fan’ I think. This is a New Zealander as well – Magnolia ‘Mark Jury’ x Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Lennei Alba’…

Visit to Tregrehan – 5th October

…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…

11th November

…Clark, Hannah Wilson and Jamie Taggart. All have been grown from seed collected from plants growing on the approach to the summit of Fan Si Pan, Lao Cai County, P…

21st January

…a part time fan! Over the years several experts have violently disagreed in trying to name elderly clumps at Burncoose. The problem for us all is that there are huge…