…‘Magnoliaeflora’ Camellia japonica ‘Desire’ now properly open but you only really see the pink petals from the side. Camellia japonica ‘Desire’ Camellia japonica ‘Desire’ Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ sprouting lighter and…

…Garden now has a very few open flowers. Very pale pink and fairly unremarkable in one sense but absurd to see this in mid-January. Magnolia campbellii Only when leafless can…

…discovery. 2023 – CHW Camellia japonica ‘Volunteer’ is out early with quite a variation in the colour of its flowers as you can see here. Some redder and some pinker….

…Bit’ Camellia ‘Little Bit’ Camellia ‘Rusticana’ Camellia ‘Rusticana’ Ilex x altaclarensis ‘Golden King’ Ilex x altaclarensis ‘Golden King’ Viburnum tinus in bud and flower. Pink buds and white flowers. Viburnum…

…large flowered single Camellia sasanqua before in flower growing in full shade above the far end of Rookery Park. Is it a sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ with little pink showing in the…

…semi-evergreen in the US? Cornus florida 2016 – CHW Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ in the Auklandii Garden is now full out in the rain. Nearby Euchryphia ‘Pink Clouds’ still has a…

…pink) and it has only just finished flowering so these must be autumn 2018’s flowers which only now have ripe seeds. Only one of the original plants has seed pods…

…magnolia in the garden but probably only for today and tomorrow when set against so many scores of others. It is a lightish and translucent pink but quite different from…

…in and around the other greenhouses.Rhododendron nobleanum ‘Album’ bought from Millais in the autumn is just coming out. Pink in bud though! Tregothnan had this form on the main drive…

…blood red Arboreums, E darleyensis is the best thing. 1916 – JCW A few daffs open, quite ½ the ciliatum, Moupinense over, pink Arboreums show colour, best red hybrids wane,…

…Camelia ‘Pink Icicle’ Podocarpus x ‘Orangeade’ Magnolia sargentiana robusta x sprengeri ‘Diva’ Second Prize Pieris japonica ‘Forrest Flame’, Erica arborea & Azara microphylla Camellia ‘Brigadoon’ First Prize While cutting for…

…dark red. Camellia ‘Midnight Magic’ Camellia ‘Sundae’ has an odd trailing habit and fades off to pink but is sufficiently unusual to be worth growing. I thought it was Camellia…

…no cinnamon scent to the flowers. Buds pinkish. Camellia champetre ‘Cinnamon Candy’ Camellia champetre ‘Cinnamon Candy’ For a ‘horrible’ variegated leaf (as my father would have said) Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ takes…

…Rhododendron monosemanthum Camellia ‘Hiraethlyn’ looking very fine too. Simple but effective. Camellia ‘Hiraethlyn’ Camellia ‘Hiraethlyn’ Camellia ‘Hiraethlyn’ Camellia ‘Can Can’ should be pink but two thirds of the bush have…

…I think it is well worth its place today even if it is not nearly as pink as the reference books say it should be. Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter…

…in the garden today. Scent immense and plastered in flower. The buds have a faint pink tinge but open pure white. The plant is 20 to 25 years old. Other…

…the tree. Magnolia ‘Shirraz’ Another unnamed seedling from the ‘Caerhays Belle’ seed batch. Smaller flowers but a bit darker pink perhaps. Nice but not worth a name as has always…

…with its occasional pink flash on the bud and petals. Azalea ‘Malvatica’ Azalea ‘Malvatica’ Camellia ‘Lady Clare’ now full out directly under the Magnolia x veitchii. Still nothing out on…

…suddenly full out.Rhododendron siderophyllum, the pinker form, is full out beyond the Rockery. The white forms seem some way off coming out yet. Rhododendron siderophyllum Rhododendron siderophyllum A seedling of…

…1933. 1921 – JCW About 14 species of Rhodo’s in flower, one Caerhays daff, some Aconites, Snowdrops are going back. P.D’s pink Azalea is v.g, Erica darleyense also. 1920 –…