…Magnolia ‘Candy Cane’ Magnolia ‘Candy Cane’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Crystal’ (Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’ x unknown) Magnolia ‘Pickards Crystal’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Crystal’ Magnolia ‘Manchu Fan’ (Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Lennei Alba’ x…

…these quite good plants. Magnolia ‘Pickards Coral’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Coral’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Coral’ These Rhododendron ririei came from a Tom Hudson collection. The three plants are all a bit different…

…Magnolia ‘Fireglow’ Magnolia ‘Fireglow’ Magnolia ‘Candy Cane’ is unfrosted this year. Magnolia ‘Candy Cane’ Magnolia ‘Candy Cane’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Crystal’ grows rather oddly! Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Crystal’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Crystal’ Magnolia…

…Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ as good as I have ever seen it. Actually I think it is ‘Pickards Ruby’ – Garnet is nearby. ‘Pickards Ruby’ ‘Pickards Ruby’ ‘Pickards Ruby’ ‘Pickards Ruby’…

…‘Delicatissima’ Magnolia ‘Pink Diamond’ not very ‘pink’ or ‘diamond’ either. Magnolia ‘Pink Diamond’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Crystal’ – see for yourself! Magnolia ‘Pickards Crystal’ Another Pickards hybrid – could not read…

…slowly comes out. A long lasting flower by magnolia standards. Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ First flowers on the drive plant of Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’. This is flowering very…

…soulangeana ‘Picture’. Magnolia ‘Pickards Ruby’ grows nearby and on the drive. Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ 2020 – CHW First cuckoo heard by Lizzie today.Another week of lockdown and…

…on the very tips of its spreading and equally pendulous branches. Cornus kousa ‘Schmetterling’ Cornus kousa ‘Schmetterling’ Cornus ‘Eddie’s White Wonder’ is long over elsewhere but this one seems to…

…above Magnolia ‘Pickards Sundew’ which we have several of. Magnolia ‘Pickards Stardust’ Magnolia ‘Pickards Stardust’ What I think and hope is Acer mandshuricum has been in full leaf for two…

…is the white edging and insides to the tepals that makes this special. The Magnolia ‘Pickards Ruby’ nearby has few flowers this year. Magnolia ‘Pickards Garnet’ The Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’…