…Gardiner’. I guess the flowers have about double the number of tepals that you would expect to see in a conventional mollicomata. It is almost a double flower in reality;…

…College, Oxford. First year for sometime when camellias coming out well. 1944 – CW Camellia sasanqua still has pink and white flowers. Double form out – also a few flowers…

…– CW First Magnolia campbellii full out – many double Camellias as Mathotiana. Double Prunus by Kennel, several Reticulata seedlings. Red Admiral at Ririei out a week. Some Red Arboreum…

…a good semi-double flower and totally new to us (ex. Stervinou). Camellia ‘Mini Mint’ Camellia ‘Mini Mint’ Cornus florida ‘Pluribracteata’ still with leaves in late December – astonishing even in…

…1947 – CW Mucronulatum and Nobleanum out also 3 or 4 of the Sutchuenense hybrids, bits of Yellow Hammer and Golden Oriole and Moupinense. Hamamelis only beginning. Camellia Double white…

…speciosissima Helleborus ‘Double Ellen’ Helleborus ‘Double Ellen’ Trillium sessile Trillium sessile Ypsilandia tubetica – I have often wondered if we should stock this. Ypsilandia tubetica Ypsilandia tubetica Symphytum ibericum Symphytum…

…small white double flower and lots of them! Camellia (hybrid) ‘Spring Mist’ 2017 – CHW The first magnolia has just come out and it is Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’. Magnolia…

…only in terms of being early. similar unnamed seedling in Bond Street Camellia ‘Dr Burnside’ just coming out by the Four in Hand. One of the very best early double…

…full out. Camellia cuspidata Rhododendron impeditum ‘J C Williams’ just starting to flower. Rhododendron impeditum ‘J C Williams’ Camellia ‘Miss Charleston’ rivals ‘Dr Burnside’ as the best double red Camellia…

…has given us great beauty of flower, masses of bloom and hardly a sopt on them. 1922 – JCW Double [?] is very good. Prunus conradinae too, one or two…

…years. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Magnolia denudata ‘Double Diamond’ battered by hailstorms earlier this week in Kennel Close. There is a large tree at Burncoose but this is…

…this at Chelsea in late May. Azalea ‘Hinomayo’ Azalea ‘Hinomayo’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Elsie Jury’ just coming out nearby. A good double. Camellia x williamsii ‘Elsie Jury’ Rhododendron moupinense full…

…Burncoose. This is the attractive golden form. Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera’ Hibiscus ‘Blue Chiffon’ – a good double blue. Hibiscus ‘Blue Chiffon’ Then to the nearby Dalverton garden centre established much…

…Semi-double, delicate and blushing! Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Next March’s flower buds on Michelia doltsopa are well advanced and swathed in orange indumentum. They may well…

…2 Magnolia veitchii. It may now be dead but there is a big and seemingly flowerless plant half way along Bond Street. One has to say that the double flower…

…named double flowering x loebneri varieties. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Mag’s Pirouette’ Rhododendron ‘Elsie Frye’ is the first of the smellies to be fully out. Rhododendron ‘Elsie Frye’ Rhododendron ‘Blue Diamond’…

…‘Macrantha Pink’ Azalea indica ‘Macrantha Pink’ Azalea indica ‘Balsaminaeflorum’ (Azalea rosiflora) (Rhododendron indicum ‘Balsaminaeflorum) is nearly over but its double salmon pink/red flowers are superb. Does not propagate easily. Azalea…

…mollicomata ‘Lanarth’ Some other buds still have their double bud covers intact while others do not. Suddenly the Narcissus cyclamineus are out on the top bank. Some other buds Some…

…(Winter jasmine) Jasminum nudiflorum (Winter jasmine) Jasminum nudiflorum (Winter jasmine) An interesting mix of Jasminum nudiflorum and Sarcococca confusa. Jasminum nudiflorum (Winter jasmine) Anemone ‘Harmony Double Pink’. Anemone ‘Harmony Double…

…ancient tractor Helleborus argutifolius just opening. Helleborus argutifolius Double flowered snowdrops (few singles) carpet literally acres of the woodland. Double flowered snowdrops More new spaces for planting flowering trees for…