…the flowers as shaped like a toad’s mouth opening. The only vaguely similar shaped flower I know is Clerodendron. Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Looking good in…

…I have been told that Borde Hill have flowered this but need to confirm. Carrierrea calycina Carrierrea calycina Carrierrea calycina Carrierrea calycina The water bowser is in place and very…

…calycina Carrierea calycina Flowers on a young Sorbus hupehensis. Sorbus hupehensis Pterocarya rhederiana ‘Fern Leaf’ with its genuinely extraordinary foliage. This young plant has much better foliage than the one…

…the normal leaves, then the curling and, finally, the dropping. Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Tony Kirkham’s great introduction of Paulownia kawakamii from Taiwan is already laden with bud…

…– the largest I have seen in full sun. Presumably close to its first flowering. Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina Quercus crassifolia – not looking too evergreen. Nice bark. Quercus crassifolia…

…Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina Azalea ‘Gumpo’ nicely out in the garden in full shade. A Nakahari hybrid which flowers very late with a compact habit. Azalea ‘Gumpo’ Azalea ‘Gumpo’ Rhododendron…

…the original and older one. Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina We missed this tree holly with Tom the other day below Slip Rail. No idea really but conceivably Ilex latifolia? A…

…initially. Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina Cercidophyllum ‘Red Fox’ has extraordinarily dark leaves and shows up a mile away in the other greenery. A columnar habit and smallish blue-black leaves edged…

…Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina 2022 – CHW Quite a few shrubs flowering away in the nursery today.Blepharocalyx cruckshankii with its aromatic fluffy white flowers. Blepharocalyx cruckshankii Chitalpa tashkentensis which is…

…out. Liquidambar calycina Liquidambar calycina 2016 – CHW Five hours with a BT surveyor on the hottest day of the year trying to work out the cost and practicalities of…

…which I have not seen before. Good even when shed on the ground. Acer sikkimense Acer sikkimense Acer sikkimense Amazingly Carrieria calycina has some leaf buds just breaking. Carrieria calycina…

…selected form of Rhododendron augustinii which may have once been named. Not a leaf to be seen. Rhododendron augustinii The oldest Carrierea calycina in the country. Not a huge tree…

…A rare aberration from the then protocol. Chordospartium stevensonii (coastal plant seen at Ventnor)Carriera calycina (original plant here from Penrice Castle) Cornus kousa ‘Xanthocarpa’ (yellow fruits – very rare) Deutzia…

…nursery. Reminds me of the flower shape of Carrieria calycina also seen for the first time this year but these flowers are much smaller. Poliothrysis sinensis Poliothrysis sinensis Euonymus grandiflorus…