…Caress’ Toona sinensis ‘Flamingo’ with nice yellow colouring starting to show. Toona sinensis ‘Flamingo’ Albizia ‘Summer Chocolate’ Albizia ‘Summer Chocolate’ Celastrus orbiculatus with a good show in the sales point….

…‘Chocolate Box’ is a rockery plant really. Two casualties out of five planted. Podocarpus ‘Chocolate Box’ Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ doing little red or emberish at this stage in the year….

…years. Hedychium yunnanense Hydrangea aspera ‘Hot Chocolate’ – only 1 of 3 has survived the two droughts and is now making headway. Hydrangea aspera ‘Hot Chocolate’ Quercus nuttallii is getting…

…This is Grevillea rosmarinifolia ‘Jean O’Neil’ Prunus ‘Chocolate Ice’ with its contrasting bronzy new growth by the cash point. Prunus ‘Chocolate Ice’ The first flower out incredibly early on Magnolia…

…Magnolia ‘Tinkerbelle’ is not at all bad. Magnolia ‘Tinkerbelle’ Magnolia ‘Black Swan’ has been frosted. Supposedly this is Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’. The pictures on the Burncoose…

…var. insignis Then a trip to photograph the 24 (mainly) Matsumae cherries planted last year below White Styles Field on the way to Old Park. Matsumae cherries Prunus Matsumae-fuki (‘Chocolate…

…‘Matsumae-Beni-Yutaka’ Prunus ‘Ukon’ Prunus ‘Shirotae’ Prunus ‘Tai-Haku’ Prunus ‘Horinji’ Prunus ‘Hokusai’ Prunus ‘Gyoiko’ Prunus ‘Ichiyo’ (‘Pink Champagne’) Prunus ‘Matsumae Fuki’ (‘Chocolate Ice’) Crataegus x lavalleei ‘Carrierei’ Acer x freemanii ‘Autumn…

…bartramiana Amelanchier bartramiana Prunus ‘Matsumae-fuki’ (‘Chocolate Ice’) still not quite fully out as you can see. Prunus ‘Matsumae-fuki’ Taiwania cryptomerioides has finally developed an upright leading shoot of its own…

…Magnolia campbellii var. mollicomata ssp. ‘Lanarth’. A small but exquisite flower in its first season (frosted last year) and I think potentially better than his other newly flowering hybrid which…

…plant on the mound magnolia plant on the mound magnolia plant on the mound Like all our camellias ‘Mary Jobson’ was full out and now the flowers are badly frosted…