…from which cuttings will need to be taken in four to six weeks when still soft (fragrantissimum, formosum, Princess Alice, Lady Alice Fitzwilliam, Berts Own, HarryTagg, Anne Teese, ciliicalyx, Countess…

…at next year’s centenary show. x Rosemoor Garden is developing quickly with excellent new woodland walks and much new planting. Sadly many of Lady Anne Palmer’s rhododendron species nearest the…

…from the lawn. Magnolia x veitchii ‘Isca’ Then a yellow magnolia garden tour with Geraint & Anne Richards. Magnolia ‘Solar Flair’ – like many of the yellows this year a…

…still grows above the top wall. 2022 – CHW Steve Dance took this photograph of Camellia ‘Spring Festival’ (C. cuspidata x unknown pollen parent) at Rosemoor near Lady Anne Palmer’s…

…a gift from Lady Anne Palmer to my father. I remember several Q. candicans planted in Bond Street. So a trip to locate them I am really not sure which…

…‘Serene’ also on the drive. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Mag’s Pirouette’ and Magnolia ‘Anne Leitner’ above the Hovel. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Mag’s Pirouette’ Spring lambs in White Stiles….

…and Helleborus ‘Winter Bells’ look good together. Helleborus Rhododendron ‘Ostara’ Rhododendron ‘Ostara’ Camellia ‘Tricolor’ and Helleborus ‘Anne’s Red’ in the cash point. Camellia ‘Tricolor’ A bit of the top of…

…a look at some leaves and bark on evergreen oaks above Crinodendron Hedge.This is one of Lady Anne Palmer or Alan Coombes’ Mexian evergreen oaks; or so I thought! Planted…