…continues at Ventnor Botanic Garden.A superb new Crocosmia ‘Pauls Best Yellow’ which has green leaves unlike our Crocosmia ‘Solfatare’ which has bronzy leaves and apricot-yellow flowers. Crocosmia ‘Pauls Best Yellow’…

…fine too. This plant needs re-staking yet again. Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Rhododendron ‘Lems Monarch’ at its very best. Rhododendron ‘Lems Monarch’ Rhododendron ‘Lems Monarch’ Flower…

…Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ is very fine too but in need (again) of re-staking. I wonder why we never grew this here before? Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls…

…looking big plant in Areas 23, 26 and 25 is strangely Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’. Leafless already and covered in white and yellow lichen (bad sign in a young plant)…

…a joke about the yellow leaves not being yellow as well as an appeal to traditionalists. This is a plant grown by an amateur over 20 years and not the…

…this. I looked last week and nothing but Jaimie has snapped it today (M. ‘Yellow Bird’ x M. ‘Caerhays Belle’). You do not really see the yellow in the opening…

…with Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’ just coming out in Penvergate. Not as good a colour yet as some years but still impressive. Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’ Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’ This is one…

…yunnanensis This plant of Magnolia ‘Ossie’s Yellow’ is doing rather better than the other. Magnolia ‘Ossie’s Yellow’ Magnolia ‘Ossie’s Yellow’ Halesia macgregori with its first flower. Another plant has flowered…

…leaf at all yet. Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’ Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ from a distance from below the Rockery. Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ 2019 – CHW Malus ‘Evelyn’ (Malus ioensis ‘Evelyn’) just coming…

…its best and in shade is very good, marked the best for Lanarth near the cable. A Calendulaceum is very good and I cleared some big ones in the Drive…