21st November

…full out in the main quarry. Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Charm’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Charm’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Snowman’. These are both hardy hybrids…

19th April

‘Fragrant Cloud’ slightly pink in bud opening pinkish white then white. A superb show on a young tree. Prunus ‘Fragrant Cloud’ Prunus ‘Fragrant Cloud’ Rhododendron aberconwayi nicely out. Rhododendron aberconwayi…

27th November

…– CHW Prunus ‘Fragrant Cloud’ with a good show of yellow by the shop. Prunus ‘Fragrant Cloud’ Prunus ‘Fragrant Cloud’ Prunus ‘Jo-nioi’ with an even better yellow autumn show opposite…

23rd April

pinker overall. ‘Caerhays Pink’ form The clump on Hovel Cart Road is markedly much more pink but without the pronounced central blotching to the flower. clump on Hovel Cart Road…

27th June

…to get the pictures better. Total failure I fear. Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ The seed heads are forming on Symplocus paniculata. These…

8th October

…is new to us too. I must grab one for Caerhays before they all sell. Styrax japonicus ‘Fragrant Fountain’ Styrax japonicus ‘Fragrant Fountain’ Cotinus coggyria ‘Lilla’ appears to be dwarfish…

20th February

…stem Camellia bailinshanica: Red new growth Camellia pitardii: Pale pink – ours is red! Is it correctly named? Perhaps. Camellia tanganica: Most fragrant of all camellias Carpinus monobeigiana Cathaya argyrophylla:…

31st March

Pink’ in the last week but the buds look fine still. Michelia ‘Touch of Pink’ Michelia ‘Touch of Pink’ I find two berries on a rather sickly plant of Photinia…

26th April

…hint of pink in bud and you have to strain your eyes to see the pink in the tepals after that. Magnolia ‘Pink Kobus’ Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’ is quite…

23rd August

…alnifolia ‘Pink Spires’ full out. Clethra alnifolia ‘Pink Spires’ Clethra tomentosa ‘Cottondale’ not quite full out. Clethra tomentosa ‘Cottondale’ Clethra tomentosa ‘Cottondale’ Clethra tomentosa ‘Cottondale’. Planted in 2003 this has…