…montana rubra is good. Tubergans Iris have 40 to 50 blooms. Maples are good, some roses open, a few very late daffs to open yet. 1900 – JCW Recurvas open….

…out also. A good many Maddeni hybrids. Single peonies and two double out in Tin Garden. 1911 – JCW A few daffs to come. Montana rubra ⅓ open. Indian Arboreums…

…R orbiculare is very good. 1910 – JCW No recurvas yet. Dalhousii breaks bud. Auklandii’s open. Maples good. Azaleas starting. Berberis stenophylla at its best and also Clematis montana rubra….

…moist weather for a week past. Clematis montana rubra good. Iris van T’s fine. 1906 – JCW Only about 3 daffs left to open. Recurvas is open, Iris lusiana, Korolkowi…

…rubra is nice. Broughtonii hybrids at their best and so R fargesii. 1911 – JCW A lot of hot sun and dry cold wind, daffs are going back and in…

…with many first time successes. First flowering of Magnolia ‘Romina’s Pink’ in the frames. (M. x soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’ x M. ‘Iolanthe’). Not yet a representative flower or a decent…

…with the latest reclassification. The planting plan lists B. szechuanica ‘Rubra White’ – this is correctly today Betula pendula subsp. szechuanica ‘Liuba White’ which was a Roy Lancaster introduction named…

…batch. Sadly, no individual names were recorded.The first has been called (by Philip Tregunna) Camellia ‘Mathotiana’ (syn. Mathotiana Rubra). It is a late season flowerer as it should be. The…

…good show. New Zealand bred by Oswald Blumhardt it is M. ‘Iolanthe’ x M. soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’. Magnolia ‘Purple Platter’ Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Dr Callies’ towards the Top Lodge. Magnolia…

…now a tree of 12-15ft. The flower shape obviously has M. soulangeana parentage and the first thought is M. soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’ but the inside of the tepals is not…

…May’ is a New Zealand cross between M. x soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’ and M. campbellii subsp. mollicomata ‘Lanarth’. Its never been as good as this before in 40 Acres. Magnolia…

…Flamingo’ Magnolia ‘Pink Flamingo’ Magnolia ‘Delicatissima’ (Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Lennei Alba’ x Magnolia x veitchii Rubra) – Gresham hybrid Magnolia ‘Delicatissima’ Magnolia ‘Delicatissima’ Magnolia ‘Tina Durio’ (Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Lennei…