As usual my memory was defective. It is Clethra fabri (FMWJ 13037) which has the indumentum on the top of the young leaves. Not much indumentum left today.

C. petelotii (FMWJ 13401) is very different to the first one we looked at with no flowers.

Our oldest C. pringlei has no flowers as yet but was good last October.

Our Magnolia insignis which has never had flowers as large or red as this before. The label is too old to read more and this was planted before Jaimie arrived.

C. monostachya almost out.

Another C. petelotii (FMWJ 13401) with a shrubby habit which is a bit different to yours.

C. delavayi from Avaxa Plants.

Our oldest plant and best C. monostachya on Bond Street with wonderful bark.

Thank you for making this all possible in the heatwave. I need to get Clethra kaipoensis going again here again as it is definitely the best trunk.

Jaimie was sorry to have missed the 4 magnolias. I also checked our M. compressa and our M. decidua but nothing doing here either. Patience again!

2025 – CHW

Magnolia virginiana var. virginiana ‘Pink Halo’ – not very pink and just as crumpled as last years flowers.

Magnolia virginiana var. australis ‘Satellite’ covered in flower.

Frankie and Ross try to extract the gigantic fallen fir above the lake.

Davidia involucrata ‘Sonoma’ appears to have settled in.

Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Pink Shower’ by the shop. Not very pink!

The trunk has been extracted.

And here is what has been shifted.

Cut Manglietia insignis. It’s even better close up. Gorgeous pink.

2024 – CHW
Swelteringly hot mid-week but the temperature is now again down to tolerable levels and the farm completed the hay harvest. No silage at all this year but 1200 round bales all done and dusted between the rain. No plastic wrapping on the bales which is a major cost saving too and no run off or pollution from our small, and now unused, silage clamp.Tilia insularis with flowers in one of the frames.

Sorbus rosea (SEP 492) with berries already.

Eriobotrya aff. elliptica var. petelotii (BWJ16323) ready for planting in the autumn. You would not guess it was an Eriobotrya!

Styrax japonica ‘Rubra Pendula’ in the frames. Large flowers on the pendulous shrub have some pink in their centres. Pink buds.

Two flowers on the very tender Digitalis spectrum.

Ptelea trifoliata ‘Aurea’ is really quite impressive in full flower.

Hydrangea luteovenosa (BSWJ 11524) has very tiny flowers but they are nicely scented.

Asia has grown Paulownia taiwaniana from side shoot cuttings.

Lots of wonderful rhododendrons as 2-3 year old plug liners now ready to go to Burncoose for potting on with us retaining a few to replace the elderly plants growing here.

Rhododendron arboreum.

Rhododendron hyperythrum.

Rhododendron tephropeplum.

Rhododendron protistum var. giganteum.

Rhododendron montroseanum.

Rhododendron ‘Pink Polar Bear’.

2023 – CHW

The one seedling from Araucaria angustifolia which Jaimie and Michael found in the huge 2 year old ripe cone is growing well. We think it must have been cross pollinated with Araucaria araucana.

Roy Lancaster’s gift of Lonicera crassifolia continues to do well on the dead tree stump at the 4-in-Hand.

Rhododendron ‘Moser’s Maroon’ just about surviving the heatwave.

A splendid carpet of new growth on Podocarpus salignus.

An absurdly late tail end flower on Rhododendron augustinii.

Dierama pulcherrimum just out by the Playhouse.

2022 – CHW

Quick visit to Busy Bee Garden Centre. Not really a plant place but found a few better pictures of things for the website.

Geum ‘Tempo Rose’ well worth Burncoose stocking.

Ilex aquifolium ‘Madame Briot’ with attractive yellow variegation.

Ilex verticillata in flower which one seldom notices.

Olearia ‘Moondance’ was removed from our website as the (French sourced) plants were poor. An attractive form in the right hot/dry island situation.

A display of mixed tender/annual gazanias caught the eye.

Scaevola ‘Topaz Pink’ had unusual flowers.

Then to Eddington nursery where it was incredibly tidy and well laid out but, strangely, nowhere near as much in flower as in early July last year.

Verbena rigida grows less tall than V. bonariensis and is just as pretty.

Geranium ‘Orkney Cherry’, with its brownish leaves, is a good thing although probably a rockery plant.

Erigeron karvinskianus ‘Lavender Lady’ an improved form of karvinskianus and would probably sell just as well.

Rhodohypoxis milloides ‘Claret’ – a plant I have always wanted to try but rockery really.

2021 – CHW
A pity the styrax/stewartia lecture was a fortnight ago. Spot on today!Newly planted Hydrangea angustipetala f. macrosepala (CWJ 1244) flowering for the first time above the sales point. Very dainty!

Styrax japonicus ‘Pink Snowbell’ which is a much larger and pinker flower than ‘Pink Showers’ seen yesterday. Dark leaves too of course.

Stewartia x henryae with a good crop of flowers.

Styrax grandiflorus (from Roundabarrow) flowering decently a year or two after planting. Not sure if this is a recognised specie name for styrax?

A young Stewartia pseudocamellia var. koreana with its first flower.

Supposedly Stewartia monodelpha but looks more like Stewartia rostrata to me. The perils of buying seed grown things from overseas.

Another Styrax japonicus ‘Pink Snowbell’ with better flowers.