…Pompom’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ with its huge near white flowers. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ The huge white Rhododendron arboreum above the Playhouse are at their best even though…

…Camellia ‘L T Dees’ Camellia ‘Holly Bright’ extraordinary holly-like leaves! Camellia ‘Holly Bright’ Camellia ‘Holly Bright’ Camellia ‘Holly Bright’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Christmas Daffodil’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Christmas Daffodil’ Camellia…

…Schrire are finally able to get here to sort out the final identification of the holly collection. In a long but happy afternoon we catalogue every holly in the garden…

…bench (not ours). Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Tom & Jo Hudson’s superb Michelia maudiae ‘Golden Temple’. Michelia maudiae ‘Golden Temple’ Magnolia ‘Livingstone’. Magnolia ‘Livingstone’ The…

…one for Susyn Andrews post lockdown. Trevanion Holly Up the drive a little further I planted a Williams Holly some 30 years ago to also grow into a mature tree….

…group led by Jim Gardiner. We looked at late flowering and yellow magnolias. Magnolia ‘Judy Zuk’ and Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ were the best of what we saw. It is rather…

…Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia pseudokobus ‘Kubushi-modoki’ is just opening and the flowers will open out flat which is the great attribute of this Japanese magnolia. So far…

…Windsor. Huge flowers. An excellent magnolia which I think they bred and named although not in Jim Gardiner’s magnolia book? Who was Phelan Bright? Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’…

…on Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’. Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ Magnolia ‘Wim Rutten’ looks much better today. Magnolia ‘Wim Rutten’ Another Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ glows against the laurel hedge. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ 2023…

…veteran holly trees here collected by George Forrest I discovered in Bean a reference to a group of seven Ilex cyrtura trees growing in Trewithen Gardens. I therefore wrote to…

…we grow here – one of only two). Camellia japonica ‘Dewatairin’ Camellia japonica ‘Holly Bright’ – we imported this from Stervinou. Camellia japonica ‘Holly Bright’ Camellia japonica ‘Spring Festival’ Camellia…

…species nova. Parastyrax species nova Magnolia ernestii now full out. Magnolia ernestii Camellia reticulata ‘Miss Tulare’. Camellia reticulata ‘Miss Tulare’ Camellia reticulata ‘Holly Bright’. Camellia reticulata ‘Holly Bright’ A bonfire…

…Acacia verticillata Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ also spot on today. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ In the greenhouse a flower on Michelia laevifolia x Michelia maudiae ‘Eternal Spring’. Michelia laevifolia…

…Bright’ full out above the greenhouse. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ 2020 – CHW If you have been pondering on the demands of our own chief medical officers and…

…on the show bench. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Malus hupehensis which has died out at Caerhays. Malus hupehensis Malus hupehensis Cornus nuttallii ‘Pink Blush’ with little pink but…

…in minutes. Philadelphus ‘Starbright’ Philadelphus ‘Starbright’ A huge throng of customers compared to last year’s post covid let out. A huge array of rare plants and many happy customers and…

…heads. The other has none this year. Pittosporum adaphniphylloides This seedling Camellia sasanqua growing in a holly above Roger’s Quarry is well worth naming even if this flower has been…

…very wet few days as nature catches up on the dry summer and our below average rainfall up to now. Leaf drop under the Trevanion holly as we have come…

…Eucryphia jinksii A (?) Pakistani holly to identify with tiny leaves which grew just beside a fine Weinmannia trichosperma. Perhaps Ilex nothofagifolia Pakistani holly Pakistani holly back the 28th April…

…it? Ilex x altaclarensis ‘Balearica’? More investigation needed. Trevanion Holly Trevanion Holly A branch off an evergreen buddleia and a deciduous azalea blown several yards down onto the drive in…