…and still looks fantastic. These pictures show the colour range on the opened flowers. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Branches laden with flowers blown off the original Magnolia campbellii….

…gloves and was short because it is bloody cold) was to photograph the first few flowers on Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’. BBC Spotlight showed these as part of their weather forecast…

…wildflower seed from the bank opposite the front door. Volunteers Peter Bickford-Smith collecting the entries for the annual GWCT clay shoot here as he has done for 30 to 40…

…veitchianum Group Rhododendron veitchianum Group Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ is full out but starting to shed petals (tepals). A lighter colour than usual as I have said before. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’…

…x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ The pure white single Camellia x williamsii ‘Francis Hanger’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Francis Hanger’ The unnamed…

…after only 12 months. You can see the pile of prunings. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ I wonder if we cut down the new apparently dead…

…‘Ciliicalyx’ Gorgeous new leaves on a young seedling Acer forrestii. Acer forrestii Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ now perfect! Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ Magnolia sieboldii leafing up already. Magnolia…

…which makes this even more surprising. A really excellent plant that ought to be more widely propagated. Magnolia campbellii ‘Peter Borlase’ Magnolia campbellii ‘Peter Borlase’ In the rain: Rhododendron fargesii…

…Michael’ My father named two very early flowering Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ seedlings ‘Bishop Peter’ and‘Bishop Michael’ (two bishops of Truro from the 1980s). Peter is darker purple and sometimes the first…

…The top of Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ with a decent background today. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ First flowers showing high up on the Donkey Shoe Michelia doltsopa. Michelia doltsopa 2022 – CHW…