7th June

…margined pink. Photinia glabra Photinia glabra Photinia davidiana var. undulata. Photinia davidiana var. undulata Photinia davidiana var. undulata Photinia glabra. Photinia glabra Photinia glabra The very rare Photinia glomerata. Photinia

29th May

…says is definitely correctly named but Hillier’s suggests plants under this name may be Photinia serrulata. Photinia glomerata Photinia glomerata Tom has brought some of his holly species for us…

30th September

…villosa var laevis Photinia villosa var laevis Photinia villosa var zollingeri Photinia villosa var zollingeri Photinia villosa var zollingeri Photinia villosa var koreana Photinia villosa var koreana Photinia villosa var…

16th April

…as you see from some basal shoots, but it quickly fades. We now have at least ten different species of Photinia. Photinia nussia Photinia nussia Photinia nussia Magnolia ‘Honeybelle’ now…

19th September

…spreading branched habit. Photinia villosa var. laevis Photinia villosa var. laevis Photinia villosa var. laevis Photinia villosa var. laevis Photinia villosa var. zollingeri has much redder berries in much sparser…

19th June

…Lancaster is happy that it is P. glomerata! Photinia glomerata Photinia glomerata Photinia glomerata 2018 – CHW A dull overcast day with no rain.The rare and elderly Rhododendron weyrichii in…

23rd December

…I think David needs seed of Photinia integrifolia! Photinia integrifolia Photinia integrifolia Photinia integrifolia 2017 – CHW Embothrium can never decide if they are evergreen or deciduous with us. The…

10th November

…the drive today as they pour the new concrete floors at The Hovel. 2019 – CHW Photinia niitakayamensis now with fully ripe red fruits. Photinia niitakayamensis Photinia niitakayamensis Photinia macrophylla…

14th October

…fruits proves it. The comparative flowers were more of a puzzle! Photinia villosa Photinia villosa Photinia villosa Fallen fruit under Sorbus cyclophylla next door to Photinia villosa. I don’t remember…

18th March 1897 – 2020

…should be evergreen but which has lost its leaves in the wind. Photinia macrophylla Roy with what I thought was a Gardenia. He says it’s a Photinia! Roy with what…

31st March

Photinia lasiogyna with superb red new growth. I have not seen this before doing as well as this. This may or may not be the same as Photinia nussia. In…

11th April

…growth on Photinia lasiogyna. Photinia lasiogyna Photinia lasiogyna A second Melliodendron xylocarpum with a dozen flowers above HQN. This one now growing in probably too much sun. Melliodendron xylocarpum Illicium…

6th October

…three forms of Photinia villosa (see last week) all with berries and also Photinia macrophylla. An excellent Photinia bretschneideri was also shown. A good display of varied autumn colour plants…

16th October

…periclymenum ‘Honey Baby’ Fruits on the irregularly variegated Photinia davidiana ‘Palette’. Another Photinia with fruits to add to our recent researches in this diary. Photinia davidiana ‘Palette’ Vaccinum cylindraceum performing…

2nd November

…fortnight ago. Photinia beauvardiana var. notabilis Photinia beauvardiana var. notabilis Maackia chinensis has lost a twisted limb. Now all cut up and goodish autumn colour still remains here and there….

29th September

…darker? A Taiwanese species related to Photinia davidiana but with smaller leaves and a more compact habit. Semi evergreen by the look of it. Photinia niitakayamensis Photinia niitakayamensis 2017 –…

28th June

Photinia Photinia Photinia This is Michael Lear’s record tree of Euonymus tingens. I have had my doubts about the naming of this old tree in the bottom of the Ririei…

22nd April

…in flower. Other species not quite out as yet. Trillium grandiflorum Boronia crenulate in full flower. We have not stocked this tender species for a while. Boronia crenulate Photinia x…

22nd September

…and some totally un-prickled and un-serrated. Photinia serratifolia x ardisifolia Photinia serratifolia x ardisifolia Photinia serratifolia x ardisifolia 2019 – CHW One always forgets that Elaeagnus x ebbingei flowers in…

9th June

…Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri Photinia nitakayensis has just finished flowering. Photinia nitakayensis Photinia nitakayensis Aristolochia sempervirens with peculiar ‘mouse-like’ flowers (like arisarum?). A vigorous climber but how tender? Aristolochia sempervirens…