…must just have missed them in the past. Symplocos aff. sumuntia (formerly S. glomerata or so we thought) Symplocos aff. sumuntia (formerly S. glomerata or so we thought) Symplocos aff….

…in flower. Symplocos aff. sumuntia Symplocos aff. sumuntia Symplocos aff. sumuntia Rhododendron ‘Loch Awe’ splendid today. Rhododendron ‘Loch Awe’ Rhododendron ‘Loch Awe’ Pittosporum eugenoides ‘Variegation’ – yellow flowers are wonderful…

…Symplocos paniculata clump is plastered in lovely blue berries. Very few last year. Asia needs to get collecting seed at once. What a display! Symplocos paniculata Symplocos paniculata Symplocos paniculata…

…have been seen at a public flower show before. Rehderodendron indochinense Rehderodendron indochinense Same goes for Symplocos dryophila and Symplocos aff. sumuntia. Symplocos dryophila Symplocos aff. sumuntia Plagianthus betulinus and…

…thing in the garden today is the clump of Symplocos paniculata in full flower outside the front gates. Symplocos paniculata Symplocos paniculata Symplocos paniculata 2019 – CHW We desperately need…

…the grass here late and infrequently in the summer with the cutter bar set high. Primroses Primroses Tom Hudson has keyed out this previously unknown evergreen Symplocos as Symplocos lucida….

…to be S. glomerata) now in full flower. Symplocos aff. sumuntia Symplocos aff. sumuntia First flowers out on a clump of young Rhododendron williamsianum. Rhododendron williamsianum A good newly planted…

…green. A ‘late autumn’ leaf fall?! Carpinus Kawakamii Carpinus Kawakamii Symplocos dryophylla with rather bulbous and swelling flower buds which will soon be open. Symplocos dryophylla Symplocos dryophylla Rhododendron calophytum…

…would not agree. Lindera umbellata var lancea Lindera umbellata var lancea Lindera umbellata var lancea 2015 – CHW I have always read about the blue berries on Symplocos paniculatus but…

…a great smell. Symplocos dryophylla Symplocos dryophylla From the Giddle Orchard Jaimie has located another rather better FJW rhodo hybrid than those seen earlier this week. This is a cross…

…‘Maya’ Red new growth on the tender Quercus insignis. Quercus insignis Symplocos dryophylla full out. Another plant has died but this one is very well sheltered by other things. Symplocos…

…dryophila full out. Symplocos dryophila Symplocos dryophila Then a few more rhododendron species suddenly out. Rhododendron heliolepis (C&N 5758) – doubtful if this is correctly named although it was an…

…evergreen symplocos species. Not Symplocos dryophylla but not that different. unnamed evergreen symplocos Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ still putting on a good show six to eight weeks after first showing colour….

…a blue sky. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Rhododendron macabeanum and Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’. Rhododendron macabeanum Symplocos paniculata in flower. Symplocos paniculata Symplocos paniculata The Fellows gathered on the lawn. The Fellows…

…hedges all along the Main Ride. Without these windbreaks many more tender plants might well have died. laurel leaves The Symplocos dryophylla was not as dead as it looked when…

…are not yet ripe:The rare Ilex spinigera with long drooping branches. Ilex spinigera Symplocos unknown An even rarer symplocos whose species is unknown Unexpectedly the Olearia solandrii still has some…

…as you can see on the Hovel Cart Road bank. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x ‘J C Williams’ Meliosma beaniana just coming into flower. Meliosma beaniana An unknown symplocos species for…

…Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ This large and rare Symplocos dryophylla has been dying slowly over the last few years above Rogers Quarry. Dry summers probably but our other plants are nestled…

…or so from the seeding tree. Lithocarpus pachyphyllus Lithocarpus pachyphyllus Lithocarpus pachyphyllus 2016 – CHW The Symplocos paniculata clump outside the front gates was photographed again today by Jaimie in…

…a long missive from Susyn Andrews about the renaming of Symplocos aff. sumuntia which was previously thought to be Symplocus glomerata. The map shows the location of all Symplocos species…