…time in the next few weeks, they all got a bit overexcited and steamed up from last summer. Magnolia aff. floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia aff. floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia sieboldii…

…planted but wonderful bark already and a distinct leaf arrangement on its twigs. Styrax tonkinensis (WWJ11868) Styrax tonkinensis (WWJ11868) Styrax tonkinensis (WWJ11868) Styrax tonkinensis (WWJ11868) 2018 – CHW Overnight the…

…Jaimie wants to layer it as cuttings have so far failed. Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Tilia carolina subsp….

…at the base. Polyspora axillaris aff. tonkinensis Polyspora axillaris aff. tonkinensis Polyspora axillaris aff. tonkinensis And a certain dead! certain dead! Another Rhododendron ririei just opening. Rhododendron ririei Half dead…

…Pterocarya tonkinensis just coming into leaf but already with attractive bark. Pterocarya tonkinensis Pterocarya tonkinensis Pterocarya tonkinensis The Taiwanese form of Trochodendron aralioides with early flower and interesting new growth….

…his view when the flowers open in a few weeks’ time? Magnolia aff. floribunda var. Tonkinensis Magnolia aff. floribunda var. Tonkinensis Magnolia acuminata ‘Variegata’ does not appear yet to have…

…tonkinensis (WWJ 11868) still has a full, if battered, set of leaves on its upper branches. Styrax tonkinensis The stake on a Taiwannia cryptomeriodes has snapped in the wind. Taiwannia…

…one to me. Beautiful bark and 40-50ft tall. Styrax tonkinensis Styrax tonkinensis Styrax tonkinensis Quercus dolicholepis. Quercus dolicholepis Quercus dolicholepis Lithocarpus brevicaudatus. Lithocarpus brevicaudatus Lithocarpus brevicaudatus Quercus fulva from Mexico…

…Nursery bed. Camellia ‘Winton’ Euonymus tonkinensis still not ripe. Euonymus tonkinensis Euonymus morrisonensis has already shed. Euonymus morrisonensis Sassafras tzumu with reasonable colour. Sassafras tzumu Microtropis petelotii looks identical to…

…Camellia ‘Christmas Daffodil’ Michelia (as I still insist it is) floribunda var. tonkinensis with its very first two flowers! We have tried this more than once but now succeeded in…

…just starting to come into growth. A very vigorous species. Lindera tonkinensis Lindera tonkinensis Magnolia campbellii ‘Darjeeling’ now full out as is the older plant at the top of the…

…forms. Candelabra primulas Lindera tonkinensis appears evergreen. Planted only in 2016 as a new lindera species to us. Lindera tonkinensis Lindera tonkinensis Magnolia sargentiana ‘Blood Moon’ (2016 planted also) has…

…Lindera tonkinensis (FMWJ 13123) two years on from planting is clearly thriving and fully evergreen. Large lindera-like leaves. Lindera tonkinensis Lindera tonkinensis First primroses creeping out all over the garden….

…foliage. Lindera tonkinensis (FMWJ 13123) Lindera tonkinensis (FMWJ 13123) Litsea from Taiwan (perhaps a Neolitsea?) from Nick Lock Litsea from Taiwan In all we looked at 17 different species of…

…tonkinensis (FMWJ 13123) Lindera tonkinensis (FMWJ 13123) One of Asia’s fairly recent aerial layers on Magnolia ‘Mr. Julian’. The moss has sprouted some grass seed and the layer looks promising…

…we expected. I must send the pictures to Tom Hudson for a further opinion. Very nice indeed though. Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Rhododendron ‘Pink Polar Bear’…

…the wind and needs re-staking. Its bark is not that different (as a young tree) to the Phellodendron above. Pterocarya tonkinensis Pterocarya tonkinensis First flowers coming on Cornus drummondii ‘Sunshiny…

…species will produce numerous root suckers like P. fraxinifolia always does? Blackish bark with white spots on this new species to us. Seems very vigorous. Pterocarya tonkinensis Pterocarya tonkinensis A…

…floribunda var. tonkinensis Magnolia floribunda var. tonkinensis Plants from the greenhouses and frames to go into Higher Quarry Nursery. Plants from the greenhouses 2024 – CHW A wet day to…

…the last one over winter in the greenhouse. They only eat the rarest and best things! Melliodendron xylocarpum Styrax tonkinensis has, however, joined the dodo. I fear this new species…