16th July

…x fraseri ‘Carré Rouge’ Photinia x fraseri ‘Louise’ which Burncoose stocks. Photinia x fraseri ‘Louise’ Photinia x fraseri ‘Louise’ The very similar to ‘Louise’ Photinia x fraseri ‘Pink Marble’ –…

16th May

…and has enjoyed the heavy rain last Sunday. Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata flowers over a lengthy period and not all flowers appear at once. Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata First flowers…

13th May

…Court’ Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata is pretty dull in flower and much, much earlier in the year than I remember our 3 original small trees by LQN. Magnolia fraseri var….

15th May

…smell with this one. I need to check our other young M. fraseri for flowers but, I suspect, far too early in the year. Magnolia fraseri ‘Pyramidalis’ Magnolia fraseri ‘Pyramidalis’…

5th August

…huge tree. No red new growth at this time of the year. Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’ Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’ Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’ Photinia x fraseri

2nd May

…two buds. Exciting to see them fully open in a few days. Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidalis Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidalis The Daphnephyllum macropodum on the drive which I thought was…

8th May

fraseri var. pyramidata is out already. This species which grew here in three long dead specimens used to flower in the mid/late summer. These were M. fraseri var. fraseri presumably?…

3rd November

…Camellia x williamsii ‘Jovey Carlyon’ Good autumn colour on Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata as we have seen before by Donkey Shoe. Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata The usual secondary flush of…

29th March

…appearing on this dwarfish shrub. No frost damage here! Photinia x fraseri ‘Atropurpurea Nana’ Photinia x fraseri ‘Atropurpurea Nana’ Corydalis solida ‘Beth Evans’ is a new plant in this year’s…

7th April

…full out. Prunus ‘Horinji’ Abies fraseri with flower cones for the first time that I have seen. Abies fraseri Abies fraseri Betula ashburneri with male and female catkins. Betula ashburneri…

17th April

…male catkins and perhaps the start of some female cones or just the new growth shoots showing? Time will tell. Abies fraseri Abies fraseri Betula utilis ‘Forest Blush’ with well-developed…

26th April

…yellow in it as I would expect from M. fraseri? A fairly unique but dullish flower! Magnolia obovata x Magnolia fraseri Michelia laevifolia ‘Gail’s Favourite’ opens out flat as a…

5th May

…always used to flower in September/October but this was full out today. Much larger yellow flowers than I remember. Magnolia fraseri Magnolia fraseri Magnolia officinalis completes the trio of magnolia…

30th November

fraseri Abies fraseri 2017 – CHW Three different named forms of Magnolia grandiflora all with buds still to open. Amazing for the time of year but normal in this run…

22nd April

fraseri ‘Atropurpurea Nana’ particularly striking today. Photinia x fraseri ‘Atropurpurea Nana’ A novelty Aquilegia now in the Burncoose catalogue this year! A. viridiflora ‘Chocolate Soldier’. Yellowish ‘granny’s bonnets’ then turn…

10th May

…and the former is from the Tasmanian mountains. Microcachrys tetragona Microcachrys tetragona A nice bit of propagation on Lonicera setifera. Lonicera setifera The flowers on Magnolia fraseri ‘Pyramidalis’ are still…

24th June

…Lomatia fraseri not yet out. Lomatia fraseri Stewartia x henryae with sparse flowers. Stewartia x henryae Rapaena salicina syn. Myrsine salicina making good progress. Rapaena salicina syn. Myrsine salicina One…

6th July

…new growth Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Party Lights’ Photinia fraseri ‘Magical Volcano’ – silly selling name but much better than ‘Red Robin’ and on a par with Photinia serratifolia ‘Pink Crispy’ Photinia…

23rd July

…be wrong) – most peculiar! Lysimachia pendrifolius Lomatia fraseri in full flower 15ft up. Lomatia fraseri Cathaya argyrophylla needing careful staking. Cathaya argyrophylla Orixa japonica and Hydrangea ‘Joseph Banks’. Orixa…

29th July

…the first time. Eucryphia x hillieri ‘Penwith’ Lomatia fraseri flowering away int is deer shelter. At Gorwell Garden this has grown into a huge tree despite originating from New South…