27th May

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2024 – CHW

Plenty of rain and thunder still around. If only we had had a bit more of this a year ago our losses would have been much less – especially rhododendrons. Today the hunt is to photograph new growth on the Scheffleras. It may take two days.

Rhododendron nuttallii just out on the main ride. Overnight rain has reduced the scent today.

Rhododendron nuttallii
Rhododendron nuttallii
Rhododendron nuttallii
Rhododendron nuttallii
I forgot the name of the large flowered, dark red evergreen azalea above Roger’s Quarry. Asia will know. Very late flowering.
dark red evergreen azalea
dark red evergreen azalea
Rhododendron lindleyi is nearly over. Few flowers this year and plenty of bud drop as we saw earlier.
Rhododendron lindleyi
Rhododendron lindleyi
Magnolia laevifolia ‘Kunming’ is a gorgeous yellow and a very superior named clone.
Magnolia laevifolia ‘Kunming’
Magnolia laevifolia ‘Kunming’
Magnolia laevifolia ‘Kunming’
Magnolia laevifolia ‘Kunming’
Rhododendron ‘Penrose’ is a gentle colour but, again, few flowers this year.
Rhododendron ‘Penrose’
Rhododendron ‘Penrose’
Rhododendron ‘Penrose’
Rhododendron ‘Penrose’
Schefflera rhododendrifolia (CWJ 9375) most impressive at about 12-15 feet on a straight single stem.
Schefflera rhododendrifolia (CWJ 9375)
Schefflera rhododendrifolia (CWJ 9375)
Magnolia sieboldii ‘Genesis’ x Magnolia virginiana nearly out. Loads of buds.
Magnolia sieboldii ‘Genesis’ x Magnolia virginiana
Magnolia sieboldii ‘Genesis’ x Magnolia virginiana
Magnolia sieboldii ‘Genesis’ x Magnolia virginiana
Magnolia sieboldii ‘Genesis’ x Magnolia virginiana
This re-righted and cut back Laburnocytisus ‘Adamii’ has started to flower again after only 3 years. No sign of the Cytisus flowers as yet.
Laburnocytisus ‘Adamii’
Laburnocytisus ‘Adamii’

2023 – CHW
Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’ already full out. I need to get to see the rest of the Styrax. This one has large flowers and a single stem.
Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’
Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’
Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’
Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’
Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus is multi-stemmed and not quite out with much smaller flowers.
Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus
Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus
Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus
Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus
Cornus ‘Venus’ growing well and as plastered in bracts as ever.
Cornus ‘Venus’
Cornus ‘Venus’
Cornus ‘Venus’
Cornus ‘Venus’
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ completely covered in flowers. Nearly the best thing in the garden today.
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’
Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’
Crataegus ashei flowering for the first time here.
Crataegus ashei
Crataegus ashei
Crataegus ambigua interesting also.
Crataegus ambigua
Crataegus ambigua
Crataegus pontica just starting. Another new species for us. So about a third of the newly planted Crataegus species have now flowered but I have missed a couple while away.
Crataegus pontica
Crataegus pontica
Crataegus pontica
Crataegus pontica
Rhododendron falconeri has also come full out during the Chelsea absence.
Rhododendron falconeri
Rhododendron falconeri
Pruned camellias below the Stable Flat windows. They have been clipped like this every 5-10 years and thrive on it.
Pruned camellias
Pruned camellias

2022 – CHW

A garden tour after a week at Chelsea. New growth flourishing everywhere but most of the rhododendrons have now gone over.

Stewartia pteropetiolata just out into flower. Styrax still in bud.

Stewartia pteropetiolata
Stewartia pteropetiolata
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’ flowering well for the first time in Kennel Close.
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’
Magnolia obovata perfectly out.
Magnolia obovata
Magnolia obovata
Rosa roxburgii is flowering sparsely and probably needs chopping down again.
Rosa roxburgii
Rosa roxburgii
Tail end flowers on Rhododendron concinnum.
Rhododendron concinnum
Rhododendron concinnum
A seedling Rhododendron falconeri flowering well in the bottom of Main Quarry (Rh. ovatum in the foreground). The old plants on Rookery Path have few flowers high up this year and are having a year off.
Rhododendron falconeri
Rhododendron falconeri

2021 – CHW
Work started five weeks ago to convert three barns in the hamlet of Trevarrick into dwellings. Fortunately the foundations of these barns sit on bedrock so underpinning all the walls with concrete should be unnecessary. This may be a major cost saving on the project. The foundations for the extension to the smallest of the barns are already laid with radon sumps as is now mandatory (but quite absurd) in locations like this.

Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Trevarrick
Rhododendron (Azalea) calendulaceum ‘Sandling orange-red form’ is new to us and flowering for the first time. Unspectacular perhaps but an interesting colour. A very variable species.
Rhododendron (Azalea) calendulaceum ‘Sandling orange-red form’
Rhododendron (Azalea) calendulaceum ‘Sandling orange-red form’
The Paulownia tomentosa ‘Lilacina’ clump above the greenhouse lived only about 30 years. Exponential growth, a brief spectacle from the bottom lodge when in flower for 10 years or so, and a very short life in our climate. Just the stumps left to burn up. Very soft and spongy wood.
Paulownia tomentosa ‘Lilacina’
Paulownia tomentosa ‘Lilacina’
Uplifting a beech tree and a Cornus to give more light to clumps of scented rhododendrons which were being deprived of light. A vital job in parts of the garden which are 20 to 30 years old. The dappled shade from young trees on a newly planted hot bank is initially a good idea but needs managing over time. More light too for a nearby and rare Quercus morii.
beech tree and a Cornus
beech tree and a Cornus
A fine clump of Azalea ‘Rosebud’ just coming into flower. Late for an evergreen like the ‘Elsie Lee’ seen last Sunday.
Camellia ‘Drama Girl’
Camellia ‘Drama Girl’
A small tail end flower on Camellia ‘Drama Girl’; one of several and there will still be colour here in June.
Camellia ‘Drama Girl’
Camellia ‘Drama Girl’

2020 – CHW
With all the outrage about Dominic Cummings’ visit to the north to drop off his young child with his grandparents as he and his wife had corona everyone seems to have missed the news that corona deaths have fallen to nearly 100 per day.

Half a million more unemployed for every week that lockdown continues? The blame game will soon switch to the economic costs of COVID and the government remains damned either way.

This ridiculous lockdown must end soon! Bankruptcy looms on a multitude of fronts and Brexit will soon be widely blamed too for making the economy worse. What a cataclysmic disaster that was panic led, panic maintained and totally disproportionate to the economic misery it has and will cause.

Fifty to seventy house martins flying over the lawn – I guess the first hatch off have become airborne.

This is the late flowering very dark red evergreen azalea clump above Rogers Quarry which Asia has propagated. It is different in colour (darker) to the clump on the drive below Hovel Cart Road and Hovel Turning which is also worth propagating. No idea of the names of either.

azalea clump
azalea clump
azalea clump
azalea clump
This is another very slightly different clump of the same above the two tallest Magnolia x veitchii. Jaimie may be able to name this one? Planted as a clump in the 1980s when this area was cleared and the camellias planted behind it.
different clump
different clump
different clump
different clump
different clump
different clump
The flowers of Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’ are greenish-cream in the shade and already turning reddish in the sun. A gift from Richard Carew-Pole when he was RHS President.
Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’
Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’
Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’
Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’
The dogs bring me a still warm dead squirrel with blood on the back of its head and neck. Exactly as a stoat or ferret would kill a rabbit. This is not how a buzzard would kill a squirrel with its talons. Perhaps a fox or fox cub but why did the dogs not give chase? More likely a stoat surprised a squirrel on the ground or perhaps a polecat which was seen recently in a Rescassa garden and which has been seen a few times over the last 18 months. I saw it once at night by Burrough Close but assumed it was an escaped ferret.
The azaleas below Green Gate.
azaleas
azaleas
Azaleas and late flowering rhodos in the Rookery.
in the Rookery
in the Rookery
in the Rookery
in the Rookery
Rhododendron ‘Barbarella’ planted recently in Rookery Nursery.
Rhododendron ‘Barbarella’
Rhododendron ‘Barbarella’
Rhododendron ‘Barbarella’
Rhododendron ‘Barbarella’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’ flowering away nearby. I cannot find the name in Galle’s azalea reference book so am suspicious if this is the correct spelling?
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Azalea ‘Chinzia’
Alniphyllum fortunei was planted in too cold a place and has two-thirds dieback which I cut out.
Alniphyllum fortunei
Alniphyllum fortunei
Pittosporum illiciodes f. angustifolium with tiny yellow flowers again this year – second flowering.
Pittosporum illiciodes f. angustifolium
Pittosporum illiciodes f. angustifolium
Ditto Ptelia baldwinii.
Ptelia baldwinii
Ptelia baldwinii
Persea thunbergii just putting on its red new growth.
Attractive reddish new growth on Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox.
Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox
Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox
Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox
Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox
Azalea ‘Sans de Gentbrugge’ is very close to ‘Corneille’.
Azalea ‘Sans de Gentbrugge’
Azalea ‘Sans de Gentbrugge’
Azalea ‘Sans de Gentbrugge’
Azalea ‘Sans de Gentbrugge’
Cornus kousa ‘Ed Mezitt’ with its first flowers with us. They seem to start pinker and fade. Large bracts.
Cornus kousa ‘Ed Mezitt’
Cornus kousa ‘Ed Mezitt’
Cornus kousa ‘Ed Mezitt’
Cornus kousa ‘Ed Mezitt’
Cornus alternifolia covered in bees and full out.
Cornus alternifolia
Cornus alternifolia
Cornus alternifolia
Cornus alternifolia
Cornus alternifolia
Cornus alternifolia
Flowers just out on Rhaphiolepsis indica.
Rhaphiolepsis indica
Rhaphiolepsis indica
Fallen leaves under Quercus acuta and fallen rhodo flowers as well.
Quercus acuta
Quercus acuta
Maytenus boaria with its drooping branches.
Maytenus boaria
Maytenus boaria
Meliosma veitchiorum in full flower.
Meliosma veitchiorum
Meliosma veitchiorum
Meliosma veitchiorum
Meliosma veitchiorum
Meliosma veitchiorum
Meliosma veitchiorum
This Pinus insignis will shed more branches very soon.
Pinus insignis
Pinus insignis
You can just see a few tail end Michelia doltsopa flowers through the pine branches.
Michelia doltsopa flowers
Michelia doltsopa flowers
A self-sown Rhododendron ponticum and Rhododendron decorum seedling by what was once Lower Quarry Nursery.
Rhododendron ponticum and Rhododendron decorum seedling
Rhododendron ponticum and Rhododendron decorum seedling
Rhododendron stamineum – very few flowers this year.
Rhododendron stamineum
Rhododendron stamineum

Plenty of social distancing on the beach.

Social distanced view of the beach!
Social distanced view of the beach!

2019 – CHW
A catch up on some of the best rhododendrons still out in the garden despite this very early season.

Rhododendron arizelum flowering better than I ever remember.

Rhododendron arizelum
Rhododendron arizelum
Rhododendron arizelum
Rhododendron arizelum
Rhododendron decorum (white form) by Tin Garden is slightly later out than some of our older plants.
Rhododendron decorum
Rhododendron decorum
Rhododendron decorum
Rhododendron decorum
Rhododendron ‘Fabia’ has a low spreading habit and is just as good as ‘Winsome’.
Rhododendron ‘Fabia’
Rhododendron ‘Fabia’
Rhododendron ‘Fabia’
Rhododendron ‘Fabia’
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Petticoats’ is orange-red in bud opening yellow. The plants are absolutely covered in flower.
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Petticoats’
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Petticoats’
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Petticoats’
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Petticoats’
Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’ was nearly over but some decent flowers remain. I saw this at Chelsea too.
Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’
Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’
Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’
Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’
Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group flowering properly for the first time since planting in 2013. We could now try to recreate the cinnarbarinum x concatenans cross which produced ‘Caerhays Philip’, ‘Caerhays John’ and ‘Caerhays Lawrence’. These died out in the mildew/rust epidemic 25 years ago which affected only certain rhododendron species then. However, when I look it up, the cross actually involved cinnarbarinum xanthocodon and cinnarbarinum blandfordiflorum. Anyway nice to know that cinnarbarinum and concatenans are both again flourishing at Caerhays.
Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group
Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group
Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group
Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group
A young bamboo called Chusquea gigantea has decided to flower and die in Kennel Close just when it was getting going. The inflorescences are pretty but short lived before a quick death leaving only some seeds. If planted and grown on these too will seed and die. Such is the cycle of bamboo species flowering. The fifth or sixth in my time here and at Burncoose. I fear that the mature Burncoose clump may now also flower and die.
Chusquea gigantea
Chusquea gigantea
Chusquea gigantea
Chusquea gigantea
Chusquea gigantea
Chusquea gigantea

2018 – CHW
A trip to look at aesculus species in flower in Kennel Close. What an addition to woodland gardening this genus is late in May and in early June.Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’, the Red Buckeye, full out and very floriferous as a small tree. A yellow flash in the trumpets.
Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’
Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’
Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’
Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’
Aesculus woerlitzensis, a rare and relatively new species, is rather less floriferous and paler in colour. Also a yellow flash in the trumpets.
Aesculus woerlitzensis
Aesculus woerlitzensis
Aesculus woerlitzensis
Aesculus woerlitzensis
Double white (and sterile) flowers on Aesculus hippocastanum ‘Baumannii’ (‘Flore Pleno’). I have not seen this out before but the flowers are impressive.
Aesculus hippocastanum ‘Baumannii’
Aesculus hippocastanum ‘Baumannii’
Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’ with attractive pink flowers.
Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’
Aesculus x carnea ‘Briotii’
Aesculus flava, a different plant with not as good a yellow flower as the one the day before yesterday. A more immature plant perhaps.
Aesculus flava
Aesculus flava
Aesculus flava
Aesculus flava
Aesculus sylvatica. Very dense panicles with red insides to the trumpets. Another one we have not seen in flower before here.
Aesculus sylvatica
Aesculus sylvatica
Aesculus sylvatica
Aesculus sylvatica
Aesculus x bushii has individual flowers that are red, pink or yellow. Male and female flowers by the look of it?
Aesculus x bushii
Aesculus x bushii
Aesculus x bushii
Aesculus x bushii
Flowers (white) just opening on the rare Aesculus chinensis which may have the tallest racemes of flowers of any aesculus species.
Aesculus chinensis
Aesculus chinensis
Aesculus chinensis
Aesculus chinensis
Aesculus x carnea which is not as dark pink as Aesculus x carnea ‘Briottii’. A tree smashed half of this plant so flowers are sparse.
Aesculus x carnea
Aesculus x carnea
Aesculus x carnea
Aesculus x carnea
Aesculus x neglecta (Aesculus glaucescens) is going over. The flowers are pale yellow and a much lighter colour than Aesculus flava.
Aesculus x neglecta
Aesculus x neglecta
Aesculus x neglecta
Aesculus x neglecta
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’ is a slow growing dome shaped tree with apricot flowers with yellow markings. Today it is the best show of any of the 12 aesculus species and hybrids now flowering away here today. This one is an excellent plant for a smaller garden. Ours was planted in 2007 and is now about 6ft tall with a similar spread.
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’
Aesculus x mutabilis ‘Induta’
There are half a dozen aesculus varieties which have yet to flower here. Some are growing too vigorously to bother yet. Aesculus wilsonii is a week or two away from flowering. A wonderful new display here from conker trees which we tend to view as common or dull.

2017 – CHW
The Rhododendron ‘Tally Hoo’ x elliotii on the drive may not have made it to Chelsea when cut but the plants on the drive remain nice enough.
Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ x elliotii
Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ x elliotii
Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ x elliotii
Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ x elliotii
A good clean up where a small oak tree had fallen into some Rhododendron nobleanum. Past experience suggests they will reshoot vigorously.
Rhododendron nobleanum
Rhododendron nobleanum
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’ looking very fine above Orchid House Nursery. Rhododendron ‘Moses Maroon’ x griersonianum I believe.
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’
Rhododendron ‘Treberrick’
Rhododendron sinonuttallii (also known as Rhododendron nuttallii) is just out above the greenhouse. Greenish in bud fading to white. The adjacent plant seeded heavily last year and has no flowers this time. The other two are looking good.
Rhododendron sinonuttallii
Rhododendron sinonuttallii
Rhododendron sinonuttallii
Rhododendron sinonuttallii
Rhododendron sinonuttallii
Rhododendron sinonuttallii
This ancient gaultheria species has never had a name in my time. Any ideas anyone?
ancient gaultheria species
ancient gaultheria species
ancient gaultheria species
ancient gaultheria species
ancient gaultheria species
ancient gaultheria species
During Chelsea week the men have cleared a wonderful extension to the Rookery Nursery bed. All ready to fence and plant up now.
extension to the Rookery Nursery bed
extension to the Rookery Nursery bed
extension to the Rookery Nursery bed
extension to the Rookery Nursery bed
They have even removed the beech stump and trunk which fell earlier in the year.
They have even removed the beech stump and trunk
They have even removed the beech stump and trunk
I seem to have missed the very late flowering ponticum hybrids below Rookery Nursery. Normally out in mid June but this year is very early and the heat (here too) of Chelsea week has done for them.
late flowering ponticum hybrids
late flowering ponticum hybrids
I have missed the vast majority of the deciduous azaleas too in the week away. Out and over in just 10 days or so. This is a late flowering Ghent azalea variety of which we have several clumps. There is an attractive orange centre to the somewhat sparse flowers.
late flowering Ghent azalea variety
late flowering Ghent azalea variety
late flowering Ghent azalea variety
late flowering Ghent azalea variety
I thought I had seen enough Primula helodoxa on our Chelsea stand but there is now a good show outside my study window.
Primula helodoxa
Primula helodoxa

2016 – CHW
See below for the YouTube attachment of our Chelsea coverage last night on BBC2. Amazing coverage!
2015 – CHW
A few magnolias left on the drive to enjoy – perhaps.
Magnolia ‘Margaret Helen’ still in flower – its reputation for a lengthy flowering season even in hot weather is well deserved.
Magnolia Margaret Helen
Magnolia Margaret Helen
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’ – not everyone’s cup of tea but the veining is unusual and the green tinge may appeal to some. Very floriferous and a good show in late May.
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’
Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’
Magnolia ‘Tranquillity’ – only the most tranquil of individuals could begin to get excited about this. A miniature ‘Stellar Acclaim’ A few better known and still available from Burncoose deciduous azaleas growing well by Green Gate. What a show at the garden entrance for June.
Magnolia ‘Tranquillity’
Magnolia ‘Tranquillity’

Berryrose – just coming out

Azalea 'Berryrose'
Azalea ‘Berryrose’
Azalea 'Berryrose'
Azalea ‘Berryrose’

Lemonara (or possibly Persil)

Azalea 'Lemonara'
Azalea ‘Lemonara’
Azalea 'Lemonara'
Azalea ‘Lemonara’

Gibraltar – five plants in this group mysteriously dead

Azalea 'Gibraltar'
Azalea ‘Gibraltar’
Strawberry Ice – the best of the five separate clumps today
Azalea 'Strawberry Ice'
Azalea ‘Strawberry Ice’
Azalea 'Strawberry Ice'
Azalea ‘Strawberry Ice’
Azalea 'Strawberry Ice'
Azalea ‘Strawberry Ice’

Babeuff – an older variety which has grown outside the back yard for 50 plus years.

Azalea 'Babeuff'
Azalea ‘Babeuff’
Azalea 'Babeuff'
Azalea ‘Babeuff’
Three huge plants of the short lived but today most impressive Buddleia salvifolia near the tower. Overpowering scent.
Buddleia salvifolia
Buddleia salvifolia
Buddleia salvifolia
Buddleia salvifolia

Next door is a new rhododendron planting where a 65 year old Pinus radiata nearly fell on the beaters’ trailer one evening three years ago.  The plant split in half for no reason on a calm day and the other half was cut down narrowly missing the huge gingko beside it.

‘Kabarett’ is a bit ponticumish and rather like ‘Mrs T Lowinsky’ as seen on Hillier’s stand at Chelsea.

Rhododendron 'Kabarett'
Rhododendron ‘Kabarett’
Rhododendron 'Kabarett'
Rhododendron ‘Kabarett’
Rhododendron 'Germania'
Rhododendron ‘Germania’
Rhododendron 'Germania'
Rhododendron ‘Germania’

‘Germania’ has a pleasing gentle colour for a newish hybrid and a welcome addition.

Syringa 'Sensation'
Syringa ‘Sensation’
Syringa 'Sensation'
Syringa ‘Sensation’

I must have relented on the anti-lilac front for here is Syringa ‘Sensation’ with its bicolour flowers.  Time it was pruned down hard. Not very floriferous and in the wrong place in a nice new rhododendron planting.

Azalea indicum 'Macrathum'
Azalea indicum ‘Macrathum’
Azalea indicum 'Macrathum'
Azalea indicum ‘Macrathum’

And then to an enormous clump of evergreen Azalea indicum ‘Macrathum’.  One of those plants I seem to have known the name of deep in my memory from childhood and well worth propagating properly.  The main batch of Nakahari or indicum azaleas here – and there are loads including a few of my father’s hybrids are just as much unknown as the deciduous azaleas.

Azalea Unknown
Azalea Unknown
Azalea unknown
Azalea unknown

Another unknown red one here with an orange centre. There are 15 huge clumps behind this one and they can go to make way for something better as indicated earlier. Perhaps occidentale ‘Magnifica’ ?

1997 – FJW
There is still a fairly well formed flower on Magnolia ‘Star Wars’. Very condensed year for the garden – too dry so far, too much east wind.

1906 – JCW
Viburnum shows colour, bed roses very good, Crinodendron good. Polystichums very good indeed.

1897 – JCW
Chromatella opens in the big pond.