23rd February

…Camellia ‘Dr Burnside’ Camellia ‘Dr Burnside’ Camellia ‘Faith’ with rather variable shaped flowers; some more semi-double than others. A 40 year old plant and one of the first camellia groups…

19th November

…a delicate initially anemone shaped double white seeming fully double when full out. Large flowers for a sasanqua. Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ ‘Winters Joy’ –…

3rd May

…easy seller and one for Asia to propagate. Rhododendron johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Rhododendron johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Magnolia (Michelia) ‘Fairy Cream’ full out and Magnolia ‘Fairy White’ more or less over…

27th December

…of single camellias out. Also double white and one double pink. Heath Mr Robert good and several Sutchuenense hybrids – also a snowdrop. 1928 – JCW H mollis is the…

5th May

‘Double Diamond’ RHODODENDRON johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Rhododendron johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ may be a weak and insipid, short lived plant but it is superb too although here slightly blemished by the…

23rd April

…unusual double flowered Rhododendron Johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Rhododendron Johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Rhododendron Johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Isla Rose meets a cow who isn’t excited about having her breakfast interrupted. sla Rose…

8th March

…Magnolia denudata ‘Double Diamond’ not yet open but with many flowers. A large tree now at Burncoose and called denudata ‘Dubbel’ originally I believe. Magnolia denudata ‘Double Diamond’ A newly…

5th March

…Perfume’ Magnolia denudata ‘Double Diamond’. Not really a full double but more tepals than in conventional M. denudata. The plant at Burncoose is labelled M. denudata ‘Dubbel’ which I assume…

31st December

…some hundreds of single Camellias. J.C.W out also double white and a few other doubles out. Rho mucronulatum, Yellow Hammer, white double Azalea and bits of one yellow below Hovel…

30th January

…Icicle’ (C. oleifera x C. williamsii ‘November Pink’) is, as you might expect when you think about it, rather a mess. Quite how this cross produced a double flower is…