11th April

…‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ One plant of Magnolia pseudokobus ‘Kubushi-modoki’ now full out. Magnolia pseudokobus ‘Kubushi-modoki’ 2019 –…

4th April

…M. ‘Black Tulip’ below Donkey Shoe. No hybrid name as far as I can see. Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’ Bluebottle…

25th April

…has yet been named and registered as it ought to be? Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x ‘Black Tulip’ This is one of the two plants…

30th April

…south east wind. Perhaps a good night for lamping! Two new first time flowering magnolias (to me anyway): MAGNOLIA ‘Rose Marie x Black Tulip’ MAGNOLIA ‘Rose Marie x Black Tulip’…

9th May

…Persea japonica Persea japonica Rhododendron ‘Jean Marie de Montague’ is a good deep red. Rhododendron ‘Jean Marie de Montague’ Rhododendron ‘Jean Marie de Montague’ The first yellowish royalii hybrid is…

8th November

‘Marie Steiner’. Camellia sasanqua ‘Marie Steiner’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Marie Steiner’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Crimson King’. Camellia sasanqua ‘Crimson King’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Loder’s Borde Hill Form’. Camellia sasanqua ‘Loder’s Borde Hill Form’…

17th November

…King’ ‘Crimson King’ ‘Marie Steiner’ ‘Marie Steiner’ ‘Marie Steiner’ ‘Showa-no-sake’ ‘Showa-no-sake’ ‘Showa-no-sake’ ‘Showa-no-sake’ ‘Showa-no-sake’ ‘Yoimachi’ ‘Yoimachi’ ‘Yoimachi’ ‘Misty Morn’ – a good one! ‘Misty Morn’ ‘Misty Morn’ ‘Misty Morn’ ‘Yuletide’…

5th April

…Magnolia ‘Chamaeleon’ not that impressive either. Magnolia ‘Chamaeleon’ Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ (Ledvina cross) is good and in a prime spot by Georges Hut. Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’…

10th April

…out now. One of the parents of this Glendoick cross was our Rhododendron ‘Polgrain’. Rhododendron ‘Wine and Roses’ Rhododendron ‘Wine and Roses’ Rhododendron ‘Wine and Roses’ Daphnephyllum macropodum var humile…

11th February

…connotations! new statue Rosemarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’ in full flower in February which is most unusual. Out of kilter to put it mildly. Rosemarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’ Rosemarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’ Not a…