25th May

…Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Aesculus sylvatica planted in Tin Garden has its first six flowers. This is another good addition to the Aesculus collection although…

24th May

…was a long time before I could obtain a plant. Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ What I think is one of my father’s elliotii hybrids – very dark and…

1st August

…the tree which is now circa 25ft tall. I can, as yet, see no male flowers. Araucaria bidwillii 2020 – CHW Lillium superbum just out. Lillium superbum Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’…

13th May

…shrubs Calycanthus floridus [ALONGSIDE] Calycanthus raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ Calycanthus floridus Calycanthus raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ Cornus ‘Venus’ with its numerous gigantic white bracts. [ALONGSIDE] Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ with its starshaped…

28th May

…Schefflera macrophylla with new growth. Schefflera macrophylla A Calycanthus floridus planted last year is deado! Calycanthus floridus Aextoxicon punctatum has gorgeous light brown growth. Aextoxicon punctatum This rhododendron failed to…

18th June

…showing colour. Magnolia globosa Magnolia globosa Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ First flowering at Caerhays of the yellow Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’. Not as nice as when I saw it on ‘Acer’ Harris’…

31st July

…bud opens. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Plenty of fat seeds on Styrax hookeri. Styrax hookeri Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ with a very late flush of secondary flower. Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Rhododendron…

9th August

…is a spreading small tree and quite different in habit. Clethra monostachya Clethra monostachya Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ still has plenty of flowers. Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Male and female catkin flowers…