…rather battered double reddish flower. A plant only put in this year in a very open place. Camellia ‘Takinini’ Camellia x williamsii ‘George Blandford’ has one flower out but too…

…Mag delavayi open and a bud on Michelia by Engine House, and Engine House double white camellia. 1940 – CW A few Mag grandiflora left – no others but buds…

…pests have been doing. The does are not yet in season but we hope to cull more over the summer.2015 – CHW Yet more ‘yellowish’ magnolias appear in a double…

…Lapagerias and fuchsias excellent. Sasanquas flowering well having had last year off. Picked 3 ½ opened buds November Pink. 1943 – CW Double white Camellia below Engine House out –…

…No Parviflora but several Nicholsiana are out on the big plant and very large flowers making 7 inches across. Double Avium is not fully open. 1916 – JCW Azaleas near…

…Tagetes lemmonii is a clump forming species which is one of the background species to our African marigolds. Not an annual at Mount Stewart. Tagetes lemmonii A double flowered Jasminum…

…the wind blows again. 1940 – CW First Sutchuenense hybrids out also Arboreum thomsonii x. Camellia sasanqua, double white, speciosa and its light and dark pink hybrids, also Oleifera very…

…yellow and sort of semi double Ghent Hybrids ‘Tower Darling’ Ghent Hybrids ‘Tower Darling’ They are bolder colours and nicer than I was expecting. Quite unlike any of the unnamed…

…are over. Some Ciliatums over, some very nice, some double C reticulata. 1907 – JCW We are now close to 1902. Caerhays trumpet is at its best. Anenome alpinina open,…

…bit weak and insipid still.But the huge ones outside do not! The leaves will double in size in the three weeks to show judging. So it is under control for…