…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…

…It over seeded mightily last year and is now ‘resting’. Halesia macgregorii Merrilopanax alpinus now coming nicely into leaf. I need not have worried. Merrilopanax alpinus A late flowering Rhododendron…

…wind. Probably too cold and stupid a place to have put Merrilliopanax alpinus unless something has eaten the emerging leaves? Perhaps drought too but it is 85% dead. I think…

…is now full out. One of the parents of Escallonia ‘Iveyi’ as is now obvious. Escallonia bifida Escallonia bifida Merrillopanax alpinus leaves have hints of purple appearing on the older…

…which split in half. Abies firma is doing extremely well. Abies firma Abies firma Merrilliopanax alpinus (BSWJ 13939) still in full leaf in nearly mid-December. We have seen this before…

…Day’s parents) still in tight bud. Rhododendron griersonianum Rhododendron davidsonianum ‘Caerhays Pink’ is a very good form of this variable species. Rhododendron davidsonianum ‘Caerhays Pink’ Merriliopanax alpinus (BSWJ 13939) with…

…x sprengeri var. diva ‘Burncoose’ and the Record Tree Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta. Magnolia x sprengeri var. diva ‘Burncoose’ and the Record Tree Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta A spectacular show…

…var laevis Photinia villosa var laevis Photinia villosa var zollingeri Photinia villosa var zollingeri Photinia villosa var zollingeri Photinia villosa var koreana Photinia villosa var koreana Photinia villosa var koreana…

…in a few weeks’ time? Magnolia aff. floribunda var. Tonkinensis Magnolia aff. floribunda var. Tonkinensis Magnolia acuminata ‘Variegata’ does not appear yet to have any variegated leaves but very blue…

…Magnolia sprengeri var. sprengeri (84329) was wild collected and given to us by Jim Gardiner. Magnolia sprengeri var. sprengeri Magnolia sprengeri var. sprengeri Magnolia sprengeri var. sprengeri Rhododendron hyperythrum ‘Omo’…