…gales. If you grow 30ft in 10 years this is the risk you run. Very few light blue flowers like last year. Paulownia kawakamii Magnolia globosa with a good show…

…colour. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ is the centrepiece with Magnolia ‘Raspberry Fun’, Magnolia ‘Antje Zandee’, Magnolia ‘Blue Opal’ and Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ included as well. A new kalmia planting too as…

…we grow with this name here. It had finished flowering and was setting seed. Meliosma_cuneifolia (MF97137) Meliosma_cuneifolia (MF97137) Meliosma_cuneifolia (MF97137) Meliosma_cuneifolia (MF97137) Abies nukiangense with blue cones and stripy undersides…

…is making serious new growth after the drought has now ended. Cedrus brevifolia 2017 – CHW Astonishingly good blue new growth on Rhododendron cinnabarinum concatenans Group. Rhododendron cinnabarinum concatenans Group…

…Dexter and Nickel Young Biscuit six months old. Biscuit Mr Billy being perfect as usual. Billy Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’ is finally out in full with a blue sky behind…

…the catalogue. Camellia ‘Kitty’ Camellia ‘Kitty’ Camellia ‘Kitty’ Picea pungens ‘Spek’ with its fantastic light blue new growth. Picea pungens ‘Spek’ Picea pungens ‘Spek’ Picea pungens ‘Spek’ Cotoneaster confusus just…

…paniculata are plentiful again this year and just beginning to turn blue. Symplocos paniculata 2018 – CHW Jaimie and the team have completed the new widened walkway down from the…

…Fields’ Cornus kousa ‘Weaver’s Weeping’ is now in full shade and flowering below its potential. Cornus kousa ‘Weaver’s Weeping’ Hydrangea serrata ‘Tiara’ full out. Purple foliage and the blue flowers…

…blue-black berries on Cornus controversa. Cornus controversa A rather better flower now on Hedychium spicatum ‘Liberty’ (BWJ 8116). Last week’s picture did not do it justice. A very intricate flower….

…of ideas for new additions to the collection if I can find where to purchase them. We have never grown any Borinda species. Borinda papyrifera has gorgeous blue canes.Other welcome…