12th February

…Erica erigena ‘Irish Dusk’ Erica erigena ‘Irish Dusk’ Erica x darleyensis ‘White Perfection’ Erica x darleyensis ‘White Perfection’ Erica x darleyensis ‘White Perfection’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Phoebe’ Erica x darleyensis…

10th February

…M. yuyuanensis x insignis M. xinganensis – syn. Synonyms Manglietia oblong Magnolia laevifolia x maudiae ‘Eternal Spring’ M. elegans – syn. Magnolia elegantifolia Magnolia guangnanica – syn. Michelia guangnanica 2023…

12th April

…with age (Magnolia ‘Pink Surprise’ is Magnolia ‘Galaxy’ x Magnolia ‘Toro’). Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ x Magnolia ‘Pink Surprise’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ x Magnolia ‘Pink Surprise’ Magnolia x brooklynensis…

5th April

…to check. Perhaps a Sorbus intermedia Views across the ‘Japanese’ garden with the first camellias (x williamsii and not Camellia japonica!) showing. About four to six weeks behind ours in…

25th February

…‘Dr Burnside’ First flower out and buds with colour on Magnolia ‘F.J. Williams’. Magnolia ‘F.J. Williams’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Debbie’ just getting going properly. Camellia x williamsii ‘Debbie’ Camellia japonica…

9th April

…first flowers out above Crinodendron Hedge amid the Styrax species planting. Magnolia ‘Yuchelia’ Magnolia ‘Yuchelia’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ beside it. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Magnolia x brooklynensis…

2nd May

…‘Naomi Paris’ (‘Aurora’ x fortunei 1926) ‘Hawk Crest’ (wardii x ‘Lady Bessborough’ 1940) ‘Hawk Crest’ (wardii x ‘Lady Bessborough’ 1940) ‘Gibraltar Bastion’ (‘Bibbani’ x elliottii 1939) ‘Gibraltar Bastion’ (‘Bibbani’ x…

7th November

…yellow stamens and aptly named. Camellia x vernalis ‘Yuletide’ Camellia x vernalis ‘Yuletide’ Mahonia x media ‘Buckland’ also full out. Mahonia x media ‘Buckland’ Mahonia x media ‘Buckland’ Mahonia x…

16th July

…papyrifer ‘Rex’ with no cold damage from last winter. Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’ Arisaema going to seed? Arisaema Salvia cacaliifolia – introduced 1858. Salvia cacaliifolia Salvia involucrata ‘Mrs Pope’. Salvia involucrata…

3rd June

…flowers on Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Flowers on Ilex yunnanensis which is developing well as an upright shrub. At Rosemoor it is used as…