…(BSWJ 12535) looking healthy. Persea indica (BSWJ 12535) Unusual new growth on Neolitsea polycarpa. Neolitsea polycarpa Similarly fine new growth on Osmanthus fragrans f. thunbergii which I have yet to…

…royalii ‘Caerhays Pink’ Rhododendron ‘Fabia’ has been slow to come out. Rhododendron ‘Fabia’ Rhododendron ‘Fabia’ Neolitsea aff. polycarpa with its new growth and interesting bark. Neolitsea aff. polycarpa Azalea ‘Klondyke’…

…Acer pseudoplatanus ‘Brilliantissimum’ Litsea glauca with its new growth. The old tree died, and root suckers have grown up as a clump. Litsea glauca Litsea glauca Litsea glauca Neolitsea aff….

…heavy rain from midday. Above Orchid House Nursery the dead Neolitsea sericea has blown over onto a dead rhododendron. dead Neolitsea sericea Jaimie and his team have removed the ivy…

…Our other Litsea and Neolitsea have generally flowered much later in the year. Litsea from Taiwan Rhododendron strigillosum just out. About as hairy as it gets! Rhododendron strigillosum Rhododendron strigillosum…

…2017 or 2018. Tom Hudson gave us a new neolitsea species and two plants of a new camellia species whose names I forget. Bluebells popping out everywhere before the primroses…

…phaedropum which I think we saw for the first time last year. Rhododendron neriiflorum ssp. phaedropum Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’ looking good alongside the old yellowish leaves of Neolitsea sericea…