…good variety and well worth growing. Magnolia ‘Amethyst Flame’ Magnolia ‘Sentinel’ is a good name for an upright and slightly recurved bud. Magnolia ‘Sentinel’ Magnolia kobus ‘White Elegance’ has only…

…x williamsii ‘Les Jury’ is a very fine red variety with a very different shape as the buds open to when they are full out. Strangely we only have young…

…x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ x Magnolia ‘Patriot’ Magnolia ‘Sunsation’ just out too at the very top. This is a x brooklynensis hybrid or variety too. Magnolia ‘Sunsation’ Phillyrea angustifolia full out…

…and trailing branches. ‘Falling Waters’ ‘Falling Waters’ ‘Falling Waters’ Also the last gingko variety: Gingko biloba ‘Variegata’ with irregular variegations here and there which are by no means all over…

…young Magnolia macrophylla has doubled in size in a year. The old original plant died last year. Magnolia macrophylla Magnolia macrophylla 2020 – CHW Another Carpinus variety in our collection…

…Fire’ 2019 – CHW The standard, variety and overall excellence of the vast exhibitors’ marquee at Hampton Court is amazing. Far less hassle, pomposity and bossiness than at Chelsea and…

…Rush’ Geranium ‘Azure Rush’ Also Sisyrinchium ‘E K Balls’ Sisyrinchium ‘E K Balls’ Then on to Busy Bee Garden Centre which had less stock in variety than usual but was…

…this heatwave. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ can be blue or pink. Reliable flowerer. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ – silly name but good variety. Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Selina’ –…

…too many newish forms of H. paniculata that are not much different. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Skyfall’ is however a good new variety. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Skyfall’ Hydrangea paniculata ‘Skyfall’ Tree felling of…

…though if we had to choose a new variety to add. Scabiosa ‘Vivid Violet’ Scabiosa ‘Vivid Violet’ Lobelia ‘Starship Scarlet’ was selling well under cover and out of the rain….

…– a Loder bred variety “Everards’s Delight” “Everards’s Delight” ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Bonanza’ – the best red we saw ‘Bonanza’ ‘Bonanza’…

…fruit looks like a Euonymus species? Then I discover that Burncoose stock this variety so we must have grown this from seed. The Burncoose plants look a little different in…

…schraderiana. Crataegus schraderiana Sorbus hedlundii (KR 1801 A – best clone) with its first fruits. Sorbus hedlundii Betula luminifera ‘White House Farm’ showing a variety of bark colours before and…

…Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Azalea ‘Greenway’ has three pink buds. Often an odd out of season flower on this variety. Azalea ‘Greenway’ 2015 – CHW I have just…

…ones which have yet to show.Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Rubin’ (small size catalogue plant and plant as you would order it today) – a new variety for us to stock which…

…a new variety to me and rather good. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ 2024 – CHW Wind damage and splitting in a large camellia. splitting in a…

…darker flowers here and there. Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ The very first flower this year on Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’. Perhaps my favourite x williamsii variety?…

…canopy which he planted first. Rhododendron ‘Pintail’ – a dwarf variety bred by Glendoick. Rhododendron ‘Pintail’ Rhododendron ‘Ptarmigan’ also Ken Cox variety is not as I remember it. Ptarmigan was…

…species or variety? A slight scent today but the bees are going mad for the flowers as you can see. Styrax japonicus ‘Emerald Pagoda’ Styrax japonicus ‘Emerald Pagoda’ Styrax japonicus…

…Potentilla ‘Arc-en-Ciel’ Potentilla ‘Arc-en-Ciel’ Sorbaria sorbifolia ‘Sem’ flowering well in pots. Sorbaria sorbifolia ‘Sem’ Campanula ‘Pritchard’s Variety’ Campanula ‘Pritchard’s Variety’ We have a mature plant of Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera’ at…