…is said to turn orange-red and purple in an open position. All we see here are nice yellow tints. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Gum Ball’ This is Liquidambar styracifolia ‘Oconee’, which has…

…drive here by the fernery and died out years ago and do not look much like the wonderful purple form we saw in The Valley Gardens but wonderful to have…

…calvum with the purple undersides to the new growth. Viburnum calvum The new leaf growth on Sassafras tzumu is odd. A new leaf or two stands upright (initially) from each…

…which continues to impress (Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x Magnolia ‘Deep Purple Dream’). Sister seedling to ‘Antje Zandee’ presumably and not much different. Magnolia ‘Aphrodite’ Magnolia ‘Vulcan’ x Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’…

…robusta Queen Mother Magnolia Red Lion Caerhays Surprise_and sargentiana robusta Queen Mother Magnolia Red Lion Magnolia Purple Sensation Mr Julian and Betty Jessel Magnolia Mr Julian and Caerhays Splendour Magnolia…

…‘Peaches and Cream’ Sorbus thompsonii with attractive silvery-purple new leaves – planted 2010. Sorbus thompsonii Sorbus thompsonii Tilia miqueliana (the Tilia on the drive by Hovel Turning is Tilia x…

…Michael’ My father named two very early flowering Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ seedlings ‘Bishop Peter’ and‘Bishop Michael’ (two bishops of Truro from the 1980s). Peter is darker purple and sometimes the first…

…another good plant above Crinodendron Hedge. MICHELIA ‘Touch of Pink’ Michelia ‘Touch of Pink’ is just coming out in a very sheltered spot. It should be ‘Touch of Purple’ really…

…here with a hint of a yellow stripe amid the dark purple. Rhododendron ‘Glendoick Velvet’ Rhododendron ‘Glendoick Velvet’ Reevsia sinica has shed what was left of its old leaves after…

…are now wind scorched. A colour not dissimilar to ‘Black Tulip’ really. Both are six weeks earlier than normal / ever before. I always thought ‘Shirraz’ was a ‘muddy’ reddish-purple…