…which is still in bud with larger black buds. Sycopsis sinensis Sycopsis sinensis Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ just out. Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ Small Liquidambar styraciflua with just a few purple-red leaves…

…was a delicate pink. Now it has turned to a shade of light blue with some outer florets turning green while others exhibit red/purple blotches on the fading whitish flowers….

…are pendulous with purple anthers which fade quickly and finally open out upside down which is not exactly how they are shown in ‘Magnolias of China’. The flowers do not…

…species which Tom collected in a limestone crevice in ?Vietnam Purple new growth on Rhododendron nuttallii in the greenhouse Illicium simonsii – pinkish in bud opening pale yellow, highly scented….

…this is Ballota acetabulosa? The flowers have purple-mauve veining. Here it is growing through and over a Grevillea. Flowers and seed heads rather better than Ballota pseudodictamnus I think but…

…which he cut today. The dark purple central markings within the flower are normally hidden when on the tree as they were at Lanhydrock 10 or so days ago. Very…

…Hydrangea ‘R F Felton’ Hydrangea ‘R F Felton’ Buddleia lindleyana is just out much earlier than last year overhanging the drive. The deep purple trumpets on long flowering racemes (often…

…before on Magnolia ‘Crystal Tulip’. Magnolia ‘Crystal Tulip’ Nyssa sinensis (FMWJ 13122) with its newer leaves already a stand out, reddish-purple. Nyssa sinensis Carpinus omeiensis omiense (Roundabarrow) with reddish, secondary…

…near Barnstaple and this plant was out. Similar purple-black ivy-like seedpods replace the flowers. The flower heads look much like the seed heads in reality. Pseudopanax laetus Pseudopanax laetus Also…

…slender stalked open branched sprays with purple-red outer petals and creamy white inner petals as here AND it flowers in summer which very few Mahonia species do. Then again M….