…hybrid. Quite nice. Magnolia ‘Frank Gladney’ Magnolia ‘Eleanor May’ is well worth growing and reminds me a little of Magnolia ‘Margaret Helen’. Magnolia ‘Eleanor May’ Magnolia ‘Eleanor May’ Magnolia ‘Eleanor…

…bashed about. Camellia sasanqua Quercus chapensis (seed from China and a gift from Margaret Miles) is doing well. Quercus chapensis The older Embothrium above Roger’s Quarry is virtually dead as…

…its last legs. Perhaps 10 years left? Magnolia salicifolia Tucked away in shelter is Quercus chapensis which was a gift from Margaret Miles. Older leaves different in shape to the…

…gardening weekend. Magnolia ‘Kew Surprise’ just out in the Auklandii Garden. Magnolia ‘Kew Surprise’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Merrill’ and Camellia japonica. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Merrill’ and Camellia japonica Magnolia ‘Philip…

…than we have sold this dwarf one with blue flowers, Hebe ‘Margaret’, looks good here today. 2015 – CHW Rain overnight and looking bad first thing but I managed a…

…Viburnum taiwanianum with huge flower heads. Viburnum taiwanianum Merrilliopanax alpinus (BSWJ 13939) with its attractive new growth. Merrilliopanax alpinus (BSWJ 13939) Picconia excelsa flowering for the first time here. Rather…

…send off but didn’t hang about in the gale afterwards. No wake so Simon Trudgeon and I had our own! Sadly Margaret Retallack broke her hip over the weekend and…

…over on a young Camellia transnokoensis. Camellia transnokoensis A gift from Margaret Miles of an unknown species of Eriobotrya collected originally in North Vietnam. Fully evergreen but not very like…

…Margaret’. I think the original plant died and was replaced but the label has vanished. magnolia which on the plans is shown as ‘Pegasus’ magnolia which on the plans is…