…mixture of flower colours. Verbascum ‘Lavender Lass’ Hydrangea ‘French Cancan’ – unusual and attractive Hydrangea ‘French Cancan’ Clematis ‘Kokonoe’ with variable double purple flower. Clematis ‘Kokonoe’ 2021 – CHW Another…

…secondary flowers are often a muddy purple and hidden by the leaves. Swithenbank does not offer a fee for this information for which she is being paid so perhaps we…

…fasciculatus Pittosporum fasciculatum – large dark purple flowers. Pittosporum fasciculatum Coprosma virescens – tiny leaves. Coprosma virescens Alseuosmia banksii – yellowish ‘fuchsia-like’ flowers. Alseuosmia banksii Alseuosmia banksii Olearia erubescens –…

…sized and without their full greenish-black-purple colouration when mature. They are also only half the size they will be in due course. Fuchsia exorticatica Fuchsia exorticatica 2015 – CHW Boxing…

…flowering. Rhododendron auriculatum A young Euonymus tingens with its purple speckled flowers. This becomes a tree but our original introduction has few flowers in its old age. Euonymus tingens Ilex…

…the backyard showing good reddish purple autumn colour. Azalea ‘Babeuff’ Azalea ‘Babeuff’ Azalea ‘Babeuff’ Above it on the wall the old brown flower heads on Hydrangea seemanii hang down from…

…‘Atlas’ x M.‘Vulcan’. Magnolia ‘Atlas’ x M.‘Vulcan’ Magnolia ‘Atlas’ x M.‘Vulcan’ Magnolia ‘Aphrodite’ (M. ‘Black Tulip’ x M. ‘Deep Purple Dream’ now named). When you have grown an unnamed cross…

…is Ilex x altaclarensis ‘Hodginsii’ which makes a good specimen tree for a lawn and is well worth propagating. A male clone with purple stems. Another good find to add…

…amazing performance for a hydrangea. Why does this plant set new flowers when the main crop of flowers are over and have turned greenish with red-purple tints? Hydrangea ‘Madame Mouilliere’…

…tenuicaulis finally has a decent flower. A single pinkish-purple which will grace Christmas Day. Dahlia tenuicaulis Dahlia tenuicaulis The pink lapageria has another single flower and is growing furiously despite…