…continues at Ventnor Botanic Garden.A superb new Crocosmia ‘Pauls Best Yellow’ which has green leaves unlike our Crocosmia ‘Solfatare’ which has bronzy leaves and apricot-yellow flowers. Crocosmia ‘Pauls Best Yellow’…

…Cloud’, planted this year, is very fine too. This plant needs re-staking yet again. Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Rhododendron ‘Lems Monarch’ at its very best. Rhododendron…

…laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’ Aesculus carnea ‘Briottii’ has a few flowers out but nearly over. Aesculus x bushii Aesculus chinensis is also out high up. There is…

…looking big plant in Areas 23, 26 and 25 is strangely Crataegus laevigata ‘Pauls Scarlet’. Leafless already and covered in white and yellow lichen (bad sign in a young plant)…

…and my speech has to contain a joke about the yellow leaves not being yellow as well as an appeal to traditionalists. This is a plant grown by an amateur…

…this. I looked last week and nothing but Jaimie has snapped it today (M. ‘Yellow Bird’ x M. ‘Caerhays Belle’). You do not really see the yellow in the opening…

…some naughtiness! yellow magnolia lecture yellow magnolia lecture yellow magnolia lecture The best magnolia show in the Burncoose garden then was Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ which might yet make it…

…worth growing as an oddity or odd yellow. US not Brussels provenance though. This year so far it is a far better yellow than ‘Yellow Bird’ but not usually. ‘Yellow…

…leaf at all yet. Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’ Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ from a distance from below the Rockery. Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ 2019 – CHW Malus ‘Evelyn’ (Malus ioensis ‘Evelyn’) just coming…

…its best and in shade is very good, marked the best for Lanarth near the cable. A Calendulaceum is very good and I cleared some big ones in the Drive…