…(pre) autumn secondary flowering. Rhododendrnon ‘Blue Tit’ Magnolia ‘Wim Rutten’. Magnolia ‘Wim Rutten’ Magnolia ‘Apollo’ with a flower more or less identical to its spring showing. Magnolia ‘Apollo’ Calocedrus macrolepis…

…(NTM 10.136) is doing well also. How many years until it flowers? Magnolia floribunda Magnolia floribunda Magnolia floribunda Cyclocarya paliurus (SICH 1784) has settled in after planting last autumn. Leaf…

…too dry for the new growth to emerge. No problem now! Reevesia See how well these Rhododendron zaleucum have reshot new growth after we halved them in size last autumn….

…which have recently been trimmed up and thinned. Horrid squirrel damage Horrid squirrel damage Lindera angustifolia with fine autumn colour in the sun. Lower down the leaves are still green….

…the bank now but the earlier autumn flowers were not as impressive. Perhaps our late grass cutting removed some of the blooms. Cyclamen hederifolium View 7th January 1897 – 2020…

…Cornus mas A large plant of Mahonia aquifolium with flowers just coming and still good red autumn tints on the leaves. Mahonia aquifolium Mahonia aquifolium Ribes laurifolium full out already….

…battered and miserable big leaved rhododendron nearby. rhododendron Ilex laevigata is a deciduous species with good autumn colour from the Eastern USA. For above the Dog Kennels I think. Supplied…

…waffled about autumn colours in New England and referred to ‘rhododendrons the size of hotels’. Not quite the theme we had in mind so ‘cut’.Yes ‘we’ were on BBC news…

…of the seeds by autumn. However the puzzle is why are there still flower spikes in profusion when the seed has already set? There were trailing female catkins evident in…

…got planted out from an old nursery bed. Auklandii Garden This original Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ was hit by a tree last autumn when we were felling elderly beech trees. Surprisingly two…

…encourage germination by these tiny seeds which come like dust in profusion from the seed pods collected when brown and opening last autumn. They have been kept in dry but…

…what an odd habit this tree has after last autumn’s explosion of colour in a ‘ball’. Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Four newish camellias planted in 2008 on Sinogrande Walk which I…

…Walk. Moupinense has been good for three weeks.1929 – JCW A long spell of cold, a fair lot of Barbatum open, Lutescens has had some flower ever since the autumn,…

…blown open high up on one of the Michelia doltsopa. Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa First forsythia flowers out. We had some secondary flowering on this plant in the autumn as…

…carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Eva Gold’ – a new one in our catalogue this year. The golden foliage of autumn has faded. Erica x…

…last autumn in anticipation of its demise. You can see the red seed stems. A lecturer at the University of York contacted us wanting large samples of bark and foliage…

…and scenting the cold air today in front of the Dining Room. narcissi Clematis armandii now has its first true flowers out. What we saw in the autumn was the…

…which germinated last year. Magnolia maccleurii Bethrocalyx crookshankii seeds collected at Tregrehan last autumn have already germinated vigorously. Ripe seed sown immediately! Bethrocalyx crookshankii Seedlings from the cold frame of…

…flower already. We now have several species of Illicium and they seem to flower in spring, summer and autumn. Illicium anisatum is sometimes out as early as this but by…

…absurdity in full flower is Photinia davidiana ‘Red Robin’. I photographed another Photinia davidiana form in flower in the autumn. Photinias are not normally noted for their flower which is…