…deer damage nearby. It should have had a wire netting surround. Magnolia tamaulipana Bluebells amazing at Burncoose as ever on a Friends of Burncoose tour for 25 tonight. Bluebells Three…

…very wet spot on the drive. Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Amber Glow’ Enkianthus cernuus recurvus is full out with the edges of the fully out bells recurved. A dwarf form which is…

…now dead but, unknown to me, there are two further plants just below it. These correctly have the anthers and stamens protruding below the rim of the bells. The only…

…a little deformed but the colour on the bells is clear enough. Very odd! unlabelled Enkianthus unlabelled Enkianthus unlabelled Enkianthus The old quince has dropped its leaves so that the…

…– not in the reference books, not looking at all like Enkianthus cernuus perhaps but definitely ‘recurved’ bells so a welcome new addition to the growing collection. Enkianthus cernuus rubens…

…full out (three plants) and looks about right. However there is another older single plant of Enkianthus chinensis nearly over with much bigger bells. It still looks like the picture…

…the bells starting to curve at the end. A small compact shrub and not a large bush like most of the others. Enkianthus cernuus reflexus The smallest leaved rhododendron species…

…Michelia doltsopa After the strong winds a complete carpet of windblown flowers under the Rhododendron sutchuenense clump. Rhododendron sutchuenense clump 2022 – CHW Bluebells now appearing in flower all over….

…pale colour to its ‘bells’. Nearly white with a hint of pink. Floriferous at a young age but nothing too startling really with or without breeder’s rights. Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Prettycoat’…

…gigantic Freylinia lanceolata, honey bells – here its woody trunk which we have never seen on our stock plant at Burncoose by the mist houses where it is a shrub…