…Jaimie has spotted the first flowers out on the second of the ancient white Camellia sasanquas. He also took some better pictures of the dark pink one. So 3 of…
…A very dark and threatening sea on a cold day. dark and threatening sea Hedychium maximum (BSWJ 8261a) is about to flower. Hedychium maximum Seed heads now ripe on Hedychium…
…I think is one of my father’s elliotii hybrids – very dark and late into flower. elliotii hybrids elliotii hybrids Pittosporum adaphniphylloides has made exceptional new growth. Pittosporum adaphniphylloides Pittosporum…
Back to 3rd November. A very old dark form of Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ with large flowers growing over a wall at the entrance to the house. Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea’ Zanthoxylum…
I visited Burncoose Gardens this weekend and saw this new Michelia foveolata species in the Burncoose gardens, it has has yet to flower.
However the Michelia maccleurei is flowering for the very first time.
The Rhododendron genestrianum is also currently in flower with its dark purple flowers. This is a short lived and rare, tender Rhododendron which is difficult to propagate by cuttings.
…different is the strange and irregular dark pink blotches and mottling on the very pale pink flowers. Not known in any other x williamsii camellia variety bred and raised at…
…spreader. Phyllostachys nuda Phyllostachys nuda Phyllostachys nuda Phyllostachys nuda Phyllostachys nigra ‘Medurochiku’ – only slightly black stems as yet but they seem to be darkening. Phyllostachys nigra ‘Medurochiku’ Phyllostachys nigra…
…it Sorbus wardii? Cannot remember without checking). Sorbus wilsoniana Camellia ‘Takanini’ in the nursery is, as it should be, a double dark rich red. The plants outside at Caerhays shown…
…better known Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii ‘Profusion’ is nearly over in two of the three Tin Garden plants. The flower clusters are larger and darker pink (as are the leaves)…
…as dark a colour as usual. Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Rhododendron campylogynum in the Rockery is two thirds dead from the drought and the other third is on its last…