…white like our original old plant. This 30 year old tree is now 20ft and so also taller than the original. A great colour combination. Magnolia cylindrica Magnolia cylindrica Magnolia…

…Maurice Foster and is developing into a compact shrub. Much smaller growing that H. lancasteri. Hypericum forrestii Hypericum forrestii At Pengelly Garden Centre I spot the bizarrely variegated Cercis canadensis…

…ferox Encephalartos ferox Encephalartos ferox Encephalartos ferox Encephalartos lebomboensis at a smaller size Encephalartos lebomboensis Encephalartos horridus – the smallest but most expensive cycad of all Encephalartos horridus Encephalartos ferox…

…Hornet’ seen in Leslie Baker’s garden a week or so ago but with smaller crab apples. yellow fruit yellow fruit 2. Much more oblong or pear shaped crab apples which…

…feet if it survives? Viburnum phlebotricum Viburnum phlebotricum (BSW 11147) with much smaller leaves and also struggling. Viburnum phlebotricum Viburnum c hillieri ‘Winton’ not so bothered by the dry conditions….

…flowers are smaller and paler than those in the species collection. I have never seen this anywhere else but the original Caerhays plant is at least 6ft x 6ft (2ft…

…smaller flower trusses. smaller flower trusses 2020 – CHW I hear on reasonably good authority (which does not of course make it true in these times of fake news) that…

…raised are a rather poor substitute for the original with much smaller leaves. The Rhododendron falconeri and arboreum (white) are still growing here but the arboreum is coming to the…

…Agapanthus ‘Windsor Grey’ Miscanthus sacchariflorus – in full growth but no flower heads. Miscanthus sacchariflorus Miscanthus sacchariflorus Agastache ‘Blue Boa’ – might have been blue originally but fading quickly. Taller…

…very fine in the sun but I think the flowers are (so far) smaller than usual this year. Magnolia ‘Lois’ Rhododendron desquamatum and Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ cut for…

…Cup’ Magnolia ‘Amethyst Flame’ – another dwarfish grower for the smaller garden. Another of Vance Hooper’s (M. liliiflora x M. ‘Vulcan’). Magnolia ‘Amethyst Flame’ Magnolia ernestii has few flowers this…

…better than the other. Magnolia ‘Ossie’s Yellow’ Magnolia ‘Ossie’s Yellow’ Halesia macgregori with its first flower. Another plant has flowered profusely at a smaller size than this. Halesia macgregori Michelia…

…Magnolia ‘Genie’ nearby (one of four in the garden in flower today) has larger flowers than the one by the Acer griseum but still rather smaller than the pictures of…

…on windblown twigs as shown here. The leaves are inevitably smaller from 60ft+ up the tree than those from the plants we looked at earlier. However I am reasonably confident…

…flowers are smaller and paler than usual. Magnolia ‘Serene’ Magnolia ‘Serene’ Tilia mongolica ‘Harvest Moon’ just coming into leaf. Tilia mongolica ‘Harvest Moon’ Laurus azorica nicely out and covered in…

…stem. Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’ Styrax japonica ‘Jippei-Kawamure’ Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus is multi-stemmed and not quite out with much smaller flowers. Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus Styrax formosanus var. hayataianus Cornus…

…engleriana Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei was also full of flower. Smaller in height than pure macrophylla and without an obvious leading central stem. Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei Magnolia macrophylla subsp….

…on Decaisnea fargesii 2017 – CHW Two very different forms of Hydrangea sargentiana. One with huge leaves and one with tiny ones. The smaller flowers look like Hydrangea villosa at…

…much smaller bush which it has become. This is another Mexican and Guatemalan species which has a purple blotch in the centre of the flower. Both need propagating for Burncoose….

…coming into leaf. A gift from the 2019 IDS visit here. Quercus trojana The sweetly scented Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ (planted 2014) is out earlier than usual and with smaller flowers…