…purple-red flowers this lilac in Monica Trudgeon’s garden is, I think, Syringa vulgaris ‘Charles X’. Not a named variety which I have come across before. Syringa vulgaris ‘Charles X’ I…

…had no idea that we even had this species here. White flowers with dark purple insides to the trumpet and a dash of lilac on the lower outside. Paulownia fortunei…

…three flowers of which one is out but a pheasant has pecked off some of the buds. Orange centres to very pale lilac buds opening white. One for Asia to…