…is now out as we await the tail end of Storm Agnes. Camellia sasanqua Also now just a couple of flowers on the first of the white forms of sasanqua….

…Cream’ Michelia ‘Fairy White’ – just a very few tail end flowers. Michelia ‘Fairy White’ The full extent of the area for new planting in Old Park is now revealed….

…some of the best rhododendrons still out in the garden despite this very early season. Rhododendron arizelum flowering better than I ever remember. Rhododendron arizelum Rhododendron arizelum Rhododendron decorum (white…

…hongkongensis The true Camellia granthamiana. Our Caerhays (white) and Burncoose (pink) plants are clearly not the true species with huge white egg shaped flowers. Tom’s original plant is in his…

…CW Double white Camellia, and a good many of the hybrids, Olieifera nearly over. Nearly 100 Lapageria. Hamamelis and Rho mucronulatum very good, moupinense showing colour, several Sutchuenense hybrids coming…

…rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ also looks tatty and only 2 flowers this year. One had faded to near white. Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ is only just starting into…

…All the white poplar trees have gone in the car park and new tarmac being laid throughout. Despite this major expenditure the plant area was looking very windswept, badly watered,…

…Bowkeria verticillata from South Africa is now 15ft tall and wide with its white calceolaria-like flowers. A wonderful show today in the sun. Bowkeria verticillata Polygala myrtifolia, another South African…

…Villosa Group A pure white flowered form of Clerodendron trochotomum. Clerodendron trochotomum Clerodendron trochotomum Carbutilon from Mexico I think. Carbutilon Carbutilon Hydrangea scandens x Hydrangea serrata – as dwarf as…

…acer tree Flowers on Camellia yunnanensis grown from RMCG seed (17099). A rounded bud and a large flower with 5 white petals. Our camellia species collection is growing nicely. Camellia…