…CHW Still a strongish east wind. Magnolia ‘Fairy White’ is nearly over. Magnolia ‘Fairy White’ Magnolia ‘Fairy White’ Whereas Magnolia ‘Fairy Cream’ is still in tight bud. Magnolia ‘Fairy Cream’…

…‘Bo Peep’ (Pink) First flowers just out on Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ in Old Park. Absurdly early. Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Jaimie has a cunning new plan to fell this massive but…

…Another for the collection. Magnolia ‘Champaign’ The three Fairy Michelias all just out together in a row. Michelia ‘Fairy Blush’ – just out. Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ –…

…laurifolia Buddleia loricata is now in flower by the shop. Creamy flowers with a reddish-orange eye. Another thing to propagate for the Burncoose website. Buddleia loricata Buddleia loricata I went…

…indumentum on the bud covers and the hint of yellow/cream in the flowers as they first emerge. I believe this is really Michelia manipurense and not Michelia doltsopa. This is…

…and a ‘Fairy Cream’ and all three have grown and flowered exponentially in the garden here. Six feet in height now after three or four years from planting at this…

…paniculata ‘Vanille Fraise’ by the fernery and in the shade have grown well and flower late in the season. The ‘ice cream’ colours are only just starting to show on…

…milk, cream, butter and cheese. Quite an enterprise and one of the only dairy farms to survive on the island with their pedigree Guernsey herd. Briddlesford dairy and farm shop…

…sweet chestnut branch split and fell sweet chestnut branch split and fell The bracts on Cornus kousa ‘Gosia’ are turning from cream to pink on the drive. An attractive tree…

…4.30pm, it is dropping its anthers and the tepals are going from cream to brownish. It will be over in less than 48 hours! So here is this exceptional (and…

…conservatory outside Cornwall. The calceolaria-like flowers are attractive and smell mildly of face cream. Bowkeria verticellata Bowkeria verticellata Delphinium ‘Bolero’ is a double lavender blue but not quite out yet….

…Higher Quarry Nursery Higher Quarry Nursery A few new things to see in the newly planted euonymus and viburnum species glade: Euonymus oxyphyllus (BSWJ 10815) has tiny grey cream flowers…

…proceeds as well) raised £1,400 themselves. Ice cream sales were £1,500 and the scouts raised £421 on their traditional games stall which included the popular china smashing. A striking contrast…

…of the 12 prizes won locally. Cherilyn Mackrory 4.30pm and only the bar still has something to sell. Ice cream sold out hours ago as did the food stalls. the…

…other than an Ilex – myrtle? Much larger white flowers than the tiny cream ones seen recently on Ilex yunnanensis here. Ilex yunnanensis var. parvifolia Ilex yunnanensis var. parvifolia Photinia…

…different clump The flowers of Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’ are greenish-cream in the shade and already turning reddish in the sun. A gift from Richard Carew-Pole when he…

…bracts. Cornus ‘Venus’ Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ Toona sinensis ‘Flamingo’ – the pink early spring foliage has faded to cream (but not yet green). [ALONGSIDE] Acer palmatum ‘Ukigomo’ with its…

…in the ripening buds has more or less faded away to cream unlike Magnolia martinii which holds its ‘yellowness’ better but is out a month earlier in colder weather conditions….

…‘Jack Fogg’ Michelia x foggii ‘Jack Fogg’ Michelia x foggii ‘Jack Fogg’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ is looking good. The best thing is the light creamy white insides to…

…‘Beni-Yutaka’ Prunus matsumae ‘Beni-Yutaka’ Rhododendron sinogrande ‘Lord Rudolph’ is pink in bud opening to the more normal cream colour. Rhododendron sinogrande ‘Lord Rudolph’ Rhododendron sinogrande ‘Lord Rudolph’ Camellia ‘Dream Castle’…