14th April

…Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ x Magnolia ‘Patriot’ Magnolia ‘Sunsation’ just out too at the very top. This is a x brooklynensis hybrid or variety too. Magnolia ‘Sunsation’ Phillyrea angustifolia full…

1st May

…campanulatus variety called ‘Showy Lantern’ Enkianthus campanulatus variety called ‘Showy Lantern’ A daffodil clump still out on the day we say hooray for the start of outdoor sex! daffodil clump…

17th November

…Blush” “Everards’s Delight” – a Loder bred variety “Everards’s Delight” “Everards’s Delight” ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Slim and Trim’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Tanya’ ‘Bonanza’ – the best red we…

4th November

…season flower on this variety. Azalea ‘Greenway’ 2015 – CHW I have just missed the very best of the Acer palmatum ‘Senkaki’ (now ‘Sango kaku’) clump planted in 1913 and…

5th April

…a Sorbus intermedia but not a Sorbus aucuparia variety I think. Odd that in such a cold winter the birds have ignored this tree. Could not find a definitive leaf…

8th April

…garden of this variety. Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ Rhododendron fargesii full out in the main quarry. I showed this starting to come out at least five weeks ago….

9th April

…yet. Magnolia ‘Lois’ Michelia ‘Mixed up Miss’ just showing but not with much scent as yet. We never thought this variety tough enough to develop and grow but it is…

12th April

…today as the ‘must have’ reticulata variety of the 35 individually photographed. I need to get to these earlier next year. 2016 – CHW Meeting with Philip Brown to organise…

12th July

…name but good variety. Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Selina’ – not much in the trade now but good. Hydrangea ‘Selina’ Hydrangea ‘Geoffrey Chadbund’ which can be red or purple…

17th January

…first flower this year on Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’. Perhaps my favourite x williamsii variety? Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’ 2023 – CHW Cold North wind but…