…mauve-purple to red and dark red. The clumps on the drive, in the Auklandii Garden and outside the front gate are full out now and flowering more copiously than I…

…the flowers are more or less the same colour as in the spring. Smaller, but more normally, these would be all mauve. Magnolia soulangeas Magnolia soulangeas Sorbus torminalis already showing…

…pendula ‘Shangri La’ – AGM – grows through rhodos Rhododendron kesangue – flowers in May. Big leaf. Rhododendron yuefengense – like orbiculare (two or three plants) Rhododendron huianum – mauve…

…stenopetalum ‘Linearifolium’ above the greenhouse has a very pale mauve flower and is rather different in colour to the plants not yet out in the Rockery. I did not know…

…in September. A good mauve and white combination. We need to propagate this as it is a winner! Hydrangea aspera ssp. robusta Hydrangea aspera ssp. robusta Cornus kousa ‘Doubloon’ is…

…light mauve with not all the flowers coming out at once to give a foxtail appearance. Calluna vulgaris ‘Silver Fox’ Calluna vulgaris ‘Silver Fox’ We have over 200 new catalogue…

…Fothergilla major Eucommia ulmoides – a dull yellow and green but nice close up. Diospyros lotus – another yellow of some merit. Diospyros lotus Callicarpa kwangtungensis – mauve/violet fruits as…

…Rhododendron mucronulatum but this form has much paler and less impressive light pink mauve flowers. Rhododendron mucronulatum A young Magnolia pseudokobus ‘Kubimishidori’ which has never yet flowered persists in full…

…sieboldii The best thing today was Callicarpa shirasawana. These got missed from the Isla Rose planting but are big plants absolutely laden with mauve-purplish berries. A better show than Callicarpa…

…its light mauve flowers. Caerhays bred but no one knows by whom or with what. Anyway it is properly registered now. Malus hupenensis Malus hupenensis The white malus with the…