…comment! Magnolia ‘Purple Prince’ This Aesculus species with wonderful orange indumentum on the stems of new growth and flowers which have just emerged from the sticky bud casings. It is…

…which is a better flower. EMBOTRIUM coccineum EMBOTRIUM coccineum Embothrium coccineum – pure orange (rather than red or scarlet) and out this year rather earlier than usual. Embothrium lanceolatum is…

…well. Perhaps a hint of Rhododendron arizelum because of the orange indumentum on the many buds? Rhododendron arizelum A fine evergreen oak labelled Quercus CMBS 900 looks very like the…

…the garden. Grass cutting nearly finished but we will definitely need a full second cut after all this rain. Cotoneaster horizontalis putting on its show of orange berries early after…

…blushing! Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Next March’s flower buds on Michelia doltsopa are well advanced and swathed in orange indumentum. They may well be out early!…

…‘Gloria Birkett’ Cornus ‘Gloria Birkett’ Sorbus folgneri ‘Emiel’ is plastered in fruit just changing colour from green to orange. Sorbus folgneri ‘Emiel’ Sorbus folgneri ‘Emiel’ Sorbus reducta (top grafted) has…

…find this species in ‘New Trees’. Quercus liabmanii Quercus liabmanii Rubus ichangensis with tiny (often only one or two circular orange fruits in each cup) ripe fruits after Christmas. I…

…Salix moupinense (but Salix fargesii nearby has none). Beautiful orange-yellow berries on a Sorbus for which we have lost the label. Any ideas please? Sorbus I did reply to Roy’s…

…coming out. This is a Caerhays cross and its sister is ‘Golden Oriole’ var Busaco which has more of an orange tinge. Rhododendron ‘Golden Oriole var Talavera’ Rhododendron ‘Golden Oriole…

…summer’s heat I assume. Manglietia moto (now Magnolia kwangtungensis) with its first ever flower buds – about 10. Tom Hudson collector’s number TH 2777. Planted 2008. Orange indumentum covers the…