…is starting to turn yellow very early as it often does. Cladastris kentukea Compare and contrast the seed pods on two ‘Chinese lantern trees’ as we used to call them…

…the way. Conversely another bit of Chinese plant collecting history bites the dust. Rhododendron hookeri Rhododendron hookeri Country Life appears today with Caerhays on the front cover and a good…

…in fact Distylum racemosum but admits to the fact that Chinese forms may be different from those from Taiwan, Japan and Korea. I would say that the plant in the…

…died of old age. All were grown from wild collected Chinese seed by Alan Clark formerly of Muncaster Gardens in Cumbria. The frames by the greenhouse which had our own…

…‘Melina’ Rhododendron ‘Temple Belle’, a williamsianum hybrid which we obtained as cuttings from just inside the gate of the Chinese garden at Werrington. Rhododendron ‘Temple Belle’ Magnolia ‘Hot Flush’ as…

…or communism? Not much difference perhaps but state control is state control. Boris would argue he has, so far, avoided anything other than pleading with us to ‘obey’. The Chinese…

…and paid for on their various Chinese expeditions up to 1932.   Garden Diary JC had no interest atall in publicising his garden or his considerable work hybridising the new…

…the massive new clearing (1) Another Quercus acuta at the edge of the massive new clearing (2) The new Chinese rhododendron collection has settled well and I can (so far)…

…on Chinese prime time national TV. What could be more topical!The Chinese film crew were here about a year ago. Too late for the magnolias. They also visited Exbury, interviewed…

…never seen like this before on either of our plants. Hilliers says that this is the Chinese form of Distylium racemosum which I have seen in flower in the nursery…