RHS Savill Garden Pictures 2018

…blew down recently at Donkey Shoe Abies forrestii Abies forrestii Abies forrestii A very fine Rhododendron arboreum var roseum Rhododendron arboreum var roseum Rhododendron arboreum var roseum Rhododendron arboreum var…

31st January 1897 – 2020

…out. Rhododendron arboreum ssp. delavayi var. albotomentosum Rhododendron arboreum ssp. delavayi var. albotomentosum Oemleria cerasiformis out with its first leaves. Oemleria cerasiformis Oemleria cerasiformis Camellia x williamsii ‘Golden Spangles’ full…

27th March 1897 – 2020

…japonica. The latter is more popular today with the public but undeservedly so. It flowers much later than the Dr too. Camellia ‘Miss Charleston’ Camellia ‘Miss Charleston’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir…

21st March 1897 – 2020

arboreum just out but looking rather old and sickly. Rhododendron arboreum Garden Society dinner last night at White’s. Very well attended but the exhibits brought by members reflected the fact…

20th March 1897 – 2020

…Camellia reticulata ‘Crimson Robe’ Camellia reticulata ‘K O Hester’ Camellia reticulata ‘K O Hester’ Rhododendron arboreum, the blood red form, is the best thing in the garden today. Rhododendron arboreum,…

3rd March 1897 – 2020

…32 has a few flowers open, R lutescens good, R argenteum ⅔ open, Prunus pissardi more than half open. 1913 – JCW Some Auklandii x Arboreum show colour, Arboreum x…

1st February

…old age (i.e. 50 years plus). Rhododendron formosum Rhododendron arboreum subsp. delavayi full out high up above the Main Quarry. This original clump is seriously over mature and we must…

2nd February

…Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomium but still not full out. Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomium Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomium First flower fully out on Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’ (yellow) and bursting buds everywhere. Rhododendron…

13th February

…up in the rush before opening as it was on Thursday in the freezing cold and alarmingly strong gusts of beastly east wind. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron arboreum It now looks…

22nd February

…‘Red Admiral’. Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ And on a blood red form of Rhododendron arboreum. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron arboreum 2024 – CHW Literally hundreds of magnolias are now…

8th March

…‘Bishop Michael’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ with only a few flowers this year. Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ An original Magnolia campbellii var. mollicomata above Roger’s Quarry….

18th March

…truss R. arboreum – 2nd Any species one spray R. moulmainense – 1st R. arboreum – 2nd Any species of falconera or grandia one truss R. macabeanum – 2nd Any…

5th April

…Rhododendron ‘Vuna’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ is rain battered but Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ is just coming out beside it. Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ Buds showing up already on…

13th April

…others coming on. R racemosum good in the beds. Clematis alpinia V.G. Rho spinuliferum is super – white Auklandii x Arboreums coming on. Daffs going off. Arboreum x Thomsonii over….

16th April

…Tilia paucicostata just in leaf. A rare newly introduced species not in Hilliers. Tilia paucicostata Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ is seldom quite as floriferous as this as a young…

20th April

…year but de minimis by comparison to then.This plant of Rhododendron arboreum ‘Blood Red’ has been exposed to view by the lifting of the crown on the nearby pendulous Cedrus…

22nd April

…needs propagating by Asia later in the summer. A particularly good form of Rhododendron ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ (arboreum). Better than 2 or 3 others in the garden. Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’…

4th May

…neglect.An enormous Oxydendron arboreum. Oxydendron arboreum Cryptomeria japonica araucarioides – extraordinary! Cryptomeria japonica araucarioides Cryptomeria japonica araucarioides I had not been to High Beeches for 20+ years and had not…

10th May

…R.GRIFFITHIANUM x purple splendour cross R.GRIFFITHIANUM x JC Williams cross R.GRIFFITHIANUM x arboreum sub delavayii cross R.GRIFFITHIANUM x cetewayo cross 2016 – CHW A tour with Mike and Annabelle Lloyd…

28th June

…Burncoose for potting on with us retaining a few to replace the elderly plants growing here. Rhododendron arboreum. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron hyperythrum. Rhododendron hyperythrum Rhododendron tephropeplum. Rhododendron tephropeplum Rhododendron protistum…