…smell. No nasty 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’…

…and is paler than Jim Gardiner’s picture in the Eisenhut book. I do not remember M. fraseri flowering this early even in a very early year. Magnolia fraseri Magnolia fraseri…

…green, yellow and white in the two buds. Exciting to see them fully open in a few days. Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidalis Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidalis The Daphnephyllum macropodum on…

…These were M. fraseri var. fraseri presumably? Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata New growth on Abies firma. Abies firma Abies firma 2021 – CHW Another Magnolia ‘Woodsman’ x ‘Patriot’ above the…

…pseudocamellia Stewartia pseudocamellia Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata has again produced a decent autumn show below Donkey Shoe. Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata As usual a few battered and misshapen out of…

…how it ends up. Very pretty indeed. Michelia ‘Fairy Lime’ Michelia ‘Fairy Lime’ Also in the frames is a first ever flower on Magnolia obovata x Magnolia fraseri. Quite an…

…As at Borde Hill this is out now but I remember the old trees flowering here only in late summer. Magnolia fraseri Magnolia fraseri Rosa banksiae ‘Lutea’, one of my…

…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 catkins. Betula utilis ‘Forest Blush’ Betula…

…leaves and is developing nicely although it has two leading shoots. One will need to be cut out soon but I had forgotten my secateurs. Abies fraseri Abies fraseri 2017…

…fraseri Magnolia fraseri Magnolia officinalis completes the trio of magnolia trees all in flower. Magnolia officinalis Magnolia officinalis A magnolia felled in the 1987 hurricane had reshot into a three…