21st April

…heaven’s sake and when was a leaf scar alone the key to a plant identification? Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Manglietia…

1st April

Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Michelia cavalieri. Michelia cavaleriei Michelia doltsopa. Michelia doltsopa 2022 – CHW Rhododendron sutchuanense still in full flower six weeks later than normal as evidenced…

13th March

…for the UK and Cornwall in 2016 but called it Michelia maudiae. Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei Certainly the leaf is very different to the maudiae I photographed here…

3rd May

…have three plants of Michelia x foggii with their distinctive dense dark green foliage and golden indumentum on the buds. Not far off Michelia doltsopa and not much like Michelia

22nd April

…decent flowers on the now nearly leafless Michelia doltsopa. Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia x foggii ‘Jack Fogg’ has opened a bit more. Michelia x foggii ‘Jack Fogg’ Rhododendron macabeanum…

30th March

…descriptions are correct, then Burncoose grows M. cavalerei. Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei In any event Michelia platypetala (M. cavalerei var. platypetala) is quite different from Michelia cavalerei as far as…

19th March

…to be forms of Michelia doltsopa and not Michelia floribunda or Michelia champaca as had been suggested by others. [Photo caption: What we thought were Michelia floribunda now identified as…

29th March

…catalogue this year. Magnolia (Michelia) ‘Eternal Spring’ Magnolia (Michelia) ‘Eternal Spring’ Good plants for sale of Machilus yunnanensis. A rare and unusual evergreen tree. Machilus yunnanensis Machilus yunnanensis Some nice…

28th April

…palmatum ‘Skeeters Broom’ The Michelias looking superb in Tunnel 3. Michelias Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia laevifolia Michelia laevifolia Michelia laevifolia Michelia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Michelia laevifolia ‘Summer…

31st March

…foot tree planted in 2017. Interesting bark. Michelia caveana Michelia caveana Michelia floribunda ‘Fansipan Furry’ (FMWJ 13340) not yet large enough to cut. Michelia floribunda ‘Fansipan Furry’ First flower on…