23rd August

…months. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Only one Echium pininana flower spike still has a few flowers left on it. The rest are brown and dead or…

16th March 1897 – 2020

…which is another for the Gresham collection Magnolia ‘Cup Cake’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ – plant above greenhouse. Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ –…

8th September

…‘Flesh Pink’ The ancient Lapageria rosea has been out for a while with one flower low down and embedded in the Alstroemeria. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ beneath the scaffolding…

15th September

…Lapageria rosea in flower growing up through his Magnolia doltsopa! Quite a sight! He wants to propagate Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ and we are doing so. Peter Shotter’s – Lapageria rosea…

31st August

…rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ also looks tatty and only 2 flowers this year. One had faded to near white. Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ is only just starting into…

15th October

…‘Picotee’ still in full flower on the wall with a couple of buds still and some lower flowers dropping. Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Sorbus japonica…

19th November

…rosea are already over very early this year. However Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ is only now coming out. All the 3 other forms of Lapageria rosea Camellia x williamsii ‘Rosemary Williams’…

30th April

…‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Rhododendron edgeworthii x leucaspis is full out and nearly over in just 10 days. Rhododendron edgeworthii x leucaspis Rhododendron edgeworthii x leucaspis Nearby the pure Rhododendron…

10th July

…earlier visit this year. Hypericum ‘Hidcote’ A gorgeous dark maroon, red-black hollyhock. Alcea rosea ‘Nigra’ (or a very near seedling to the true black form). Alcea rosea ‘Nigra’ Outside the…

21st August

…now assess the drought damage.Lapageria ‘Flesh Pink’ is out about a month earlier than usual. Lapageria ‘Flesh Pink’ Ditto the elderly Lapageria rosea beside it. Lapageria rosea A very drought…

10th November

…the arch. Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ 2002 – FJW Flowers on wall Delavayi – very mild and wet. 2000 – FJW Rain and floods continue…

13th December

…Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ Lapageria rosea with its last flower. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Amazingly a flower still on a common day lily (Alstroemeria) by the front door in a…

1st April 1897 – 2020

…a white reticulata. Camellia reticulata (white) Stapylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ with more flower than I have ever seen before on such a small tree. Fourteen years from planting. Stapylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’…

28th March 1897 – 2020

…I think is paler in colour but I cannot at present locate it. Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ It now really is exactly…

26th March

…the flowers are too far away. Magnolia salicifolia ‘Rosea’ Magnolia salicifolia ‘Rosea’ Magnolia salicifolia ‘Rosea’ Typical rain damage on rhododendron flowers that were only just new out. Typical rain damage…

29th March

…this is Magnolia ‘Tina Durio’. Magnolia ‘Tina Durio’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ just out. Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Camellia ‘Tiny Princess’ on the path beside the Aucklandii Garden has a pinkish hue…

5th April

…quickly fades but is left in stripes on the tepals. Magnolia stellata ‘Rosea’ Magnolia stellata ‘Rosea’ Magnolia stellata ‘Rosea’ Rhododendron ‘Assaye’ – Caerhays bred. Rhododendron ‘Assaye’ Rhododendron ‘Assaye’ Early leaves…

4th August

…shaped leaf structure. Eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘Rosea’ Eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘Rosea’ Eucalyptus leucoxylon ‘Rosea’ A secondary flower or three on Magnolia ‘Apollo’ which, as we know, is one of the very last…

28th August

…Orange’ just out outside the Smoking Room. Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ Likewise Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ or is it ‘Nash Court’? Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ 2019 – CHW A clump…

5th September

…densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ The first Lapageria rosea flowers. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ again with a large truss of flowers. Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Escallonia bifida covered…