26th August

…in colour or have gone over altogether? Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ 1992 – FJW All corn in – poor harvest. Peas west, then Barley –…

30th July

…Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ on the drive. Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ The Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ are now a huge clump above the drive. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’…

8th August

…Rhododendron schlippenbachii Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ (‘Mariesii Perfecta’) looking good on the drive. A better blue than some years and this clump are in full shade. Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ Hydrangea ‘Blue…

24th April

…or ‘Mister Yellowjacket’? I need to go and look at some other possibilities. [I found the answer: it is ‘Sundance’!] yellow magnolia yellow magnolia yellow magnolia yellow magnolia A big…

17th April

…Road. Perhaps Narcissus x intermedius? narcissus Ceanothus ‘Trewithen Blue’ and Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ – blue and yellow work well together here. Ceanothus ‘Trewithen Blue’ Ceanothus ‘Trewithen Blue’ and Metasequoia glyptostroboides…

29th December

…very first flowers out in the sun today on Rhododendron mucronulatum below the big Fernery. Rhododendron mucronulatum Yellow berries in small numbers only this year on Ilex aquifolium ‘Bacciflava’. Odd…

14th May

…Magnolia ‘Large Yellow’. Clearly a stupid name if the naming is correct. Magnolia ‘Large Yellow’ Magnolia ‘Large Yellow’ Enkianthus curvus recurvus is now full out and properly recurved on the…

20th April

…worth growing as an oddity or odd yellow. US not Brussels provenance though. This year so far it is a far better yellow than ‘Yellow Bird’ but not usually. ‘Yellow

5th May

…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…