…x williamsii ‘Les Jury’ is a very fine red variety with a very different shape as the buds open to when they are full out. Strangely we only have young…

…x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ x Magnolia ‘Patriot’ Magnolia ‘Sunsation’ just out too at the very top. This is a x brooklynensis hybrid or variety too. Magnolia ‘Sunsation’ Phillyrea angustifolia full out…

…fruit looks like a Euonymus species? Then I discover that Burncoose stock this variety so we must have grown this from seed. The Burncoose plants look a little different in…

…Fire’ 2019 – CHW The standard, variety and overall excellence of the vast exhibitors’ marquee at Hampton Court is amazing. Far less hassle, pomposity and bossiness than at Chelsea and…

…Rush’ Geranium ‘Azure Rush’ Also Sisyrinchium ‘E K Balls’ Sisyrinchium ‘E K Balls’ Then on to Busy Bee Garden Centre which had less stock in variety than usual but was…

…this heatwave. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ can be blue or pink. Reliable flowerer. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ – silly name but good variety. Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Selina’ –…

…too many newish forms of H. paniculata that are not much different. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Skyfall’ is however a good new variety. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Skyfall’ Hydrangea paniculata ‘Skyfall’ Tree felling of…

…though if we had to choose a new variety to add. Scabiosa ‘Vivid Violet’ Scabiosa ‘Vivid Violet’ Lobelia ‘Starship Scarlet’ was selling well under cover and out of the rain….

…and trailing branches. ‘Falling Waters’ ‘Falling Waters’ ‘Falling Waters’ Also the last gingko variety: Gingko biloba ‘Variegata’ with irregular variegations here and there which are by no means all over…

…– a Loder bred variety “Everards’s Delight” “Everards’s Delight” ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Bonanza’ – the best red we saw ‘Bonanza’ ‘Bonanza’…

…about really I suspect. I have replied accordingly although I am surprised this obviously delicate variety can be grown in Germany. Mr Schroeder wisely covers his plants in fleece for…

…Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Azalea ‘Greenway’ has three pink buds. Often an odd out of season flower on this variety. Azalea ‘Greenway’ 2015 – CHW I have just…

…A tender variety easily set back and partially defoliated in cold east winds. Hoheria populnea ‘Variegata’ Hoheria populnea ‘Variegata’ Hoheria populnea nearby is over but one branch on ‘Variegata’ has…

…ones which have yet to show.Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Rubin’ (small size catalogue plant and plant as you would order it today) – a new variety for us to stock which…

…a new variety to me and rather good. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ 2024 – CHW Wind damage and splitting in a large camellia. splitting in a…

…darker flowers here and there. Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ The very first flower this year on Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’. Perhaps my favourite x williamsii variety?…

…canopy which he planted first. Rhododendron ‘Pintail’ – a dwarf variety bred by Glendoick. Rhododendron ‘Pintail’ Rhododendron ‘Ptarmigan’ also Ken Cox variety is not as I remember it. Ptarmigan was…

…Potentilla ‘Arc-en-Ciel’ Potentilla ‘Arc-en-Ciel’ Sorbaria sorbifolia ‘Sem’ flowering well in pots. Sorbaria sorbifolia ‘Sem’ Campanula ‘Pritchard’s Variety’ Campanula ‘Pritchard’s Variety’ We have a mature plant of Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera’ at…

…young Magnolia macrophylla has doubled in size in a year. The old original plant died last year. Magnolia macrophylla Magnolia macrophylla 2020 – CHW Another Carpinus variety in our collection…

…schraderiana. Crataegus schraderiana Sorbus hedlundii (KR 1801 A – best clone) with its first fruits. Sorbus hedlundii Betula luminifera ‘White House Farm’ showing a variety of bark colours before and…