…(deep salmon-pink and very early into flower with last year’s quinces still on the tree) C. japonica – Crinodendron Hedge C. cathayensis – Crinodendron Hedge (biggest fruits and biggest thorns)…

…⅓ of big Mag kobus are open, all the Mag salicifolia. The Dendata has been very good. Fat cherries are opening, Subhirtella has been very good. Camellia speciosa going over…

…bigger I suspect. Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Magnolia ‘Spring Rite’ has a decent-ish flower. Magnolia ‘Spring Rite’ Magnolia ‘Kusious’ seems an odd name and may be…

…About 30 Magnolias out in Big Wood. Calophytums outstanding. New layers by Tin Garden flowering well for first time. Beaneanum and Arboreum flowering for 1st time. Corylopsis coming. Still no…

…for Scotland, far behind the above. 1897 – JCW The first Tropaeolum speciosum opens, a lot of waterlilies on the big pond out, young shoots of nigra 8 feet high….

…seriously the specimen Acer opalus has also blown over and left a big gap and the best of the two new Metasequoia glyptostroboides has had a direct hit and lost…

…one other decent big plant and a couple of youngsters which are now getting going. Jaimie says he did once see a total defoliation like this. Magnolia nitida Magnolia nitida…

…the first leaf on a sycamore on 21st March. I always try to record the first sycamore in leaf. Usually, it is above the big quarry but this year just…

…they were hidden in trees and, latterly, very sparse. Very close to the true sprengeri diva. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Gordon Trudgeon’ Then a big excitement. Another new sprengeri to match ‘Dusky…

…in the garden beating ‘Atlas’ and ‘Big Dude’ by an inch or three. Magnolia campbellii alba seedling These were the plants shown tonight to Garden Society members at the Zoom…

…the front door. It is too big for a vase. Magnolia campbellii This afternoon spent showing Duchy and Prince Charles’ favourite forester around the magnolias here. The government wants tree…

…Ruby’ x Magnolia ‘JC Williams’ We had all missed a very big Pinus insignis branch down at the Pound in Storm Eunice. This may well need a tree surgeon to…

…– CHW Planting the yellow magnolia collection (Phase 1) and a few specimen trees in Tunnel Field (two acres) at Burncoose. It does not look a big pile but there…

…big a job as it is a long thin trunk with not much of a crown. It could have made far more mess if it had fallen any other way…

…normal time. Nothing showing two days ago but its still warm and mild. Rhododendron siderophyllum Magnolia campbellii from afar is no big deal as yet. Perhaps there are 50 flowers…

…them more light. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron arboreum A big consignment of new plants from Burncoose from my annual ‘wish list’ accumulated from what I have seen on webcasts and garden…

…for a proper foray into the start of the magnolia season. Camellia x williamsii ‘Delia Williams’ now nicely out on the castle wall. Camellia x williamsii ‘Delia Williams’ A big…

…a result of the drought. Not just the big leaved species but many younger smaller leaved species too. rhododendrons are now dying rhododendrons are now dying First flowers out on…

…Wisteria ‘Violacea Plena’ 2015 – CHW Seeing Crug Farm Nursery exhibiting at the Tregrehan rare plant sale allowed a big purchase which may obviate the need to order from them…

…Grand Design. 1902 – JCW Habranthus is now very good, moved the big lot of Polyanthus primroses. None of the waterlilies show flower yet, a few Arums about, a very…