…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…

…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’…

…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….

…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…

…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?…

…‘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 flowers on Rhododendron…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…secateurs. Abies 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…

…recent addition to the Burncoose catalogue but never seen (by me) in flower before. Aralia cashmeriana Lysimachia pendrifolius (spelling may be wrong) – most peculiar! Lysimachia pendrifolius Lomatia fraseri in…

…‘Kew’s Surprise’ to gather in a month. Magnolia ‘Kew’s Surprise’ Lomatia fraseri in flower in the frames. Lomatia fraseri Brassaiopsis dumicola (KWJ 12217) with a flower cluster. We lost this…

…Rhododendron zaleucum A young plant of Eucryphia x hillieri ‘Penwith’ performing properly for the first time. Eucryphia x hillieri ‘Penwith’ Lomatia fraseri flowering away int is deer shelter. At Gorwell…

…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…

…excellent 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’…

…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…

…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…

…the seedlings sent by Jim Gardiner this week: Stewartia malacodendron Magnolia fraseri Magnolia ashei Pinus yunnanensis (wild collected dwarf form from Yunnan) seedlings sent by Jim Gardiner View 20th March…