…x conspicuum ‘Red Flamingo’ Acer x conspicuum ‘Red Flamingo’ 2015 – CHW Ilex perado ‘Perado’ from the Canary Isles has been spread around the garden by birds feeding on its…

…saw another of these last year above the greenhouse. We thought then a natural cross with Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ or ‘Red Admiral’. The seedlings were originally gathered from beside the…

…flowers than the front but much darker overall than the other two. Helleborus ‘Anna’s Red’ Helleborus ‘Anna’s Red’ Helleborus ‘Anna’s Red’ Also out today was the new Hamamelis x intermedia…

…Met Office ‘Red Warnings’ which they so love post COVID. Storm Eunice in January a non event red warning then. Cornwall is only an amber warning as yet but there…

…‘Louise’ Acer cappadocicum ‘Aureum’ Acer cappadocicum ‘Aureum’ Cercis canadensis ‘Appalachian Red’ Cercis canadensis ‘Appalachian Red’ Ceanothus ‘Puget Blue’ Ceanothus ‘Puget Blue’ Two camellias still with decent flowers despite a month’s…

…the sales point in a cold spot but flowering well. Leptospermum ‘Red Damask’ Leptospermum ‘Red Damask’ Carpinus polyneura with reddish secondary new growth. Carpinus polyneura Carpinus orientalis with plenty too…

…apiculata self-sown seedlings Louisa, the chief propagator, keeps stock plants for cuttings of Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ in the mist houses. The new growth is now clean and ready for propagation….

…Magnolia dealbata Lomatia tinctoria had a few seeds but they have shed and we have missed them. Lomatia tinctoria A perfect flower on Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’. Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ Another…

…up it is a Gresham hybrid and should be a dark red – so wrongly named. Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ A rather surprising red hybrid…

…though when you see them close up. Wisteria floribunda ‘Violacea Plena’ Wisteria floribunda ‘Violacea Plena’ This unnamed red evergreen azalea below the fernery is always covered in flower. Did Asia…