2024 – CHW (images to follow)
2023 – CHW
The one night of frost a week or so ago has cut back the new growth on the Buddleja colvilei smashed by a fir tree.
We have just purchased plants from Holland of the newly registered and patented Magnolia ‘Meganolia’. A silly but clever name from a marketing point of view. Four (marketing) pictures are attached which we are now permitted to use after purchasing this plant.
It looks very much like Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ to me. The ‘giant red cabbage’ as I have previously called it. I suspect this may be a bit of artistic Dutch rebranding but we will see after further investigation into the breeding and viewing the plants themselves.
All I can find online to date it that it has been bred and offered for sale initially by a German business – Heinje Baumschulen – who I do not know. The same pretty pictures with the German girl but no other details of the parentage.
Update 13th December – Emailed from Michael Schroeder
Getting answers appears to boil down to willingness to read German under a microscope. Quoting directly the (very small indeed) small print, which is in German even on the English language version of the website: (marked pdf attached, see directly over the Impressum at the very bottom of the webpage):
“Meganolia®: Diese Pflanze unterliegt dem Sortenschutz ( ‘JURmag2’).
Die Vermehrung und gewerbliche Weiterkultur ist verboten!”
…. which appears to confirm your guesses (JURmag2 patent information also attached).
Best regards Michael Schroeder (Weinheim)
First few battered flowers on Camellia x williamsii ‘JC Williams’ outside the front gate.
The first frosty morning for the winter with ice on the edge of the lawn.
A further inspection of the new Beatrice Fleur Camellia sasanqua collection which we hope to ‘open’ after her christening in the spring. A few more of the 25 new plants are in flower (or over) and there are several here which are not in the Tregothnan sasanqua collection. Some are really rather good and a bit different. I must have photographed 50 to 60 different sasanquas in the last six weeks but have no intention of competing with Tregothnan.Camellia sasanqua ‘Elfin Sun’
Lapageria ‘Flesh Pink’ still has flowers about two months since they first appeared. This is three years on from planting.
Still loads of ripe strawberries on the Cornus kousa chinensis by the Four in Hand. No squirrel attack this year but I see a tree rat pinch a hazel nut from a trap without getting caught further up the drive.
Camellia ‘Golden Spangles’ has regrown with patches of completely yellow new growth. This unstable x williamsii hybrid has yellow centres to its leaves and has here shown how the viral (?) cause of this variegation can become more pronounced after pruning.
If you are interested I spent my first ever pocket money in 1964 on air gun pellets!!
2015 – CHW
Flooding in Cumbria after 14’’ of rain in 24 hours! We get a drizzle for the day but nothing worse. The old Gingko biloba is turning nicely on its lower branches. What a colour even on a dull day! Green turns to yellow but this is December!
Beside it another large clump of good but unnamed Camellia x williamsii has sprung open in the wind. Just one branch at the top for now which hangs down as you can see.
A young Magnolia pseudokobus ‘Kubimishidori’ which has never yet flowered persists in full leaf.
1991 – FJW
George Williams strode into the house.
1981 – FJW
Picked flowers Oleifera, November Pink and Sulfureum.
1976 – FJW
Night stormy enough to move hedges at Rescassa.
1973 – FJW
First good flower on George Blandford.
1964 – FJW
Charles had first pocket money – the bargain of 1/- per week. Temperatures oscillating.
1961 – FJW
Delia found first flower on Noblissima by front door.
1960 – FJW
First frost of winter – rain since August.
1934 – JCW
Saw two blooms of Camellia on separate plants, very heavy , moors have taken a lot of water.
1932 – JCW
No Camellia japonica open but the double white. Cold S.E wind has started and is severe around the house but hardly moves much in the New Planting.
1927 – JCW
Rather earlier than 1924, not much cold so far. Camellia speciosa and sasanqua show colour. Erica hybrida and Cotoneaster salicifolia are the best thing. I saw a flower on Mag delavayi three days ago in the wood.
1924 – JCW
Much as the above. I suppose Berberis polyantha and the Stransvaesia fruit are the best things. Erica hybrida is far the best flower and is on Jan 17th too.
1923 – JCW
‘Polling Day’. Some lapagerias have come through the frost but not many. Cotoneaster salicifolia is by far the best thing we have, the Hamamelis mollis just show colour. The Erica hybrida not yet open. Roses (a few) in the Tin Garden.
1915 – JCW
The lapagerias are yet nice. Cam sasanqua gives a few more flowers. Erica hybrida begin to open.
1901 – JCW
Returned after some absence, daffs moving all round a bit, should make my first cross tomorrow or the next day. Several coums open. Lapagerias look well yet, could pick several nice roses yet.
1897 – JCW
Iris stylosa in flower.