…may be a weak and insipid, short lived plant but it is superb too although here slightly blemished by the heavy rain. I remember a mauve form growing at Trengwainton…

…to look up and stock ourselves. Hedging Mahonia Hedging Mahonia Hedging Mahonia Is this a Syringa species or not? A bushy small shrub with pinnate leaves and light mauve flowers…

…with its first flower on this plant. Magnolia ‘Tikitere’ Rhododendron ‘Emma Williams’ is mauve when full out but greenish yellow initially. Rhododendron ‘Emma Williams’ Rhododendron ‘Emma Williams’ Scrambling up the…

…Needham’s collection at Tregye. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Rhododendron augustinii corner with a blaze of mauve, blue and purple. Rhododendron augustinii corner Rhododendron augustinii corner A trip on the 1½…

…much newer New Zealand hybrid Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ is still showing nicely weeks after it first came out. Despite the leaves now appearing it is a delicate light colour. Mauve not…

…breweriana doing well. Picea breweriana Picea breweriana Picea breweriana Rhododendron ‘Boddaertianum’ pinkish in bud, opening pale mauve-white. Rhododendron ‘Boddaertianum’ The house from across the valley. Llanover Court A fine clump…

…means. fuchsias I have been watching Rhododendron desquamatum for several days. The wind has speeded its opening and what a sight it is if you like mauve-purple in profusion. One…

…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 this plant…

…grows through rhodos Rhododendron kesangue – flowers in May. Big leaf. Rhododendron yuefengense – like orbiculare (two or three plants) Rhododendron huianum – mauve – niveum colour Betula luminifera View…

…– a dwarf clump forming species with single mauve or purple flowers. Rhododendron calostrotum subsp riparium Nitens Restio-Rhodocoma capensis – an attractive reed like plant with architectural merit in a…