…– a gentle colour Achillea ‘Lilac Beauty’ Achillea ‘Lilac Beauty’ Hibiscus ‘Lavender Chiffon’ – a good semi double Hibiscus ‘Lavender Chiffon’ Malus ‘Pink Glow’ with fruits just turning colour Malus…

…lilac. Dalhousi, Ovatum, Orbiculare, Baylei all open. 1912 – JCW Plenty of May everywhere, Lilac going back, Azaleas are very nice. Tubergens Iris are all over. 1911 – JCW Auklandii…

…Primula japonica ‘Apple Blossom’ 2021 – CHW Syringa vulgaris ‘Carpe Diem’ just out on the drive. Newly planted this year to add to the lilac collection on the drive. Syringa…

…Rush’ And set beside Sanguisorba hakusanensis ‘Lilac Squirrel’ – quite superb. Sanguisorba hakusanensis ‘Lilac Squirrel’ Olearia nummulariifolia in full flower. I would have thought too tender for Warwickshire. Olearia nummulariifolia…

…Lavandula allardii ‘Meerlo’ Monarda ‘Balmy Pink’ – dwarf growing. Monarda ‘Balmy Pink’ Monarda ‘Balmy Lilac’. Monarda ‘Balmy Lilac’ Silene maritima is a plant which I do think Burncoose and the…

…herbaceous plants. So very much a nursery and not a garden centre. Among the novelties seen were:Achillea ‘Summer Fruits Lemon’ and Achillea ‘Lilac Beauty’ Achillea ‘Summer Fruits Lemon’ and Achillea…

…a fair covering of secondary flowers which are mainly misformed and misshapen. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Jaimie has cut back a lilac which had half fallen over and…

…slower growing tree but also a Chilean species. Maytenus magellanica The attractive foliage of Syringa protolaciniata does not look lilac – like at all. A shrub from Afagnistan with lilac…

…lilac) in flower. I do not think I have ever spotted this out before although seed has been collected and grown. White flowers contrast with the foliage. Few flowers for…

…be proud to grow distinctive forms of the hybrid? To my mind the white-flowered form has great merit, and an unusual lilac-flowered form sent into the RHS from Guernsey under…

…top of the plant which I think would have been out earlier if the drought had not held the plant back. Again, unusual to find a lilac flowering so nicely…

…very pale lilac buds opening white. One for Asia to continue to propagate. [Or is this Buddleia macrostachya? See Andrew Large’s comment below.] Buddleia forrestii Buddleia forrestii Now a real…

…here and deep lilac pink flowers when they open. Bean seems to agree but says this species is tender. It is well protected here. Anyway I may stand corrected. Callicarpa…

…Pale lilac flowers fading to white in tight clusters. Asia has raised this as a new item for the 2017 catalogue. Propagate more – it is nice! Deutzia compacta Deutzia…

…not pink. Robinia hispida var kelseyi has lilac-pink flowers so that seems the best bet as far as I know. Robinia hispida var kelseyi Robinia hispida var kelseyi Deutzia pulchra…

…looked. flowers for St Just in Roseland Church’s Coronation Celebrations flowers for St Just in Roseland Church’s Coronation Celebrations With single purple-red flowers this lilac in Monica Trudgeon’s garden is,…

…azaleas are going off. 1915 – JCW Maddeni x cinnabarinum is the best rhodo . Ponticums at their best. Azaleas going back. Lilac Madame Lemoine goes back. Species villosa in…

…Drive. Madame Lemoine lilac good for a week, all but the Waterer rhodo’s are over now. Loder’s White good yet. Viburnum plicatum and mariesii good. 1913 – JCW We are…

…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…

…I have been corrected by Clare on this! Yellow poppies Syringa ‘Katherine Havemeyer’ is purple in bud, opening purple-lavender and then fading (as here) to pale lilac-pink. A double flower….