A trip to Tregrehan to study Fagacaea

…yunnanensis Quercus affinis from Mexico with acorns forming. Quercus affinis Quercus affinis Calycanthus chinensis (formerly Sinocalycanthus chinensis) with its last pink tinged flowers and huge leaves. The buds are rather…

April 2018 Irish trip (Day 4)

…Poor picture. Magnolia sargentiana multipetala Magnolia ‘Hella Doyle’ – smallish single pink flowers on a huge tree. Good new thing! Unusual. Magnolia ‘Hella Doyle’ The Ambrose memorial planting of a…

Magnolias and Climate Change at Caerhays

…Christmas x williamsii camellias such as ‘November Pink’, ‘St Ewe’ and ‘J C Williams’ are almost exactly on time and as usual. The diary proves that camellias have been out…

3rd January

…as pink forms but they have more conventional grande leaf forms. Rhododendron grande seedling Deer nibbling on fatsia leaves – the keepers had one the other day which is a…

18th January

…heavy rain is the collapse of stone faced earth banks. collapse of stone faced earth banks 2023 – CHW Amazingly we see colour (pink) on two windblown buds high up…

17th January

…‘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…

13th January

…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…

12th January

…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….

6th January

…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…

4th January

…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…

5th January 1897- 2020

…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…

3rd January 1897- 2020

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…

19th March 1897 – 2020

…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…

9th January 1897- 2020

…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…

10th February 1897 – 2020

…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,…

9th March 1897 – 2020

…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…

18th March 1897 – 2020

…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…

30th December

…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…

21st February 1897 – 2020

…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…

17th February 1897 – 2020

…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…