…enormous runoff from gardens into the street. It is not only agricultural fields that cause this sort of erosion. Then to a large seaside garden in Bembridge where we saw…

…Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum subsp. campestre). It was once grown by the horticultural industry in Cornwall for cut flowers and is sometimes found as a relic of cultivation in fields and…

…put a close second to Deutzia ‘Strawberry Fields’; quite a bit later into flower too than most other deutzia species and not all the racemes come out at once. Best…

…soulangeana). Magnolia x veitchii ‘Avocet’ Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ – unimpressive as it is here. This is another Lunaplant/Gottschalk hybrid – M. ‘Purple Globe’ x M. ‘Joe McDaniel’. Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’…

…season. Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ x M. ‘Gold Cup’ Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ x M. ‘Gold Cup’ Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ (I think) although rather past its best. Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ Carpinus rankanensis in full…

…Agapanthus ‘Streamline’ Agapanthus ‘Strawberry Ice’ Agapanthus ‘Strawberry Ice’ Agapanthus ‘Silver Moon’ with both green and variegated foliage but no flowers as yet. Agapanthus ‘Silver Moon’ Two other plants which we…

…Camellia japonica ‘Strawberry Parfait’. The flowers seem buried in the foliage. Camellia japonica ‘Strawberry Parfait’ Magnolia ‘J.C. Williams’ x Magnolia ‘Apollo’ just coming out in Tin Garden. Not much sign…

…is its first flowering here. Its an old Gresham hybrid of no great note. Magnolia ‘Dark Shadow’ Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’ not too smashed up in the rain. Magnolia ‘Strawberry Shake’…

…Lily, in full flower on the steps of the Cottage in Yorkshire. This plant has greatly enjoyed the drought although the fields are much greener here than in Cornwall. Cyrtanthus…

…in the heat. More than enough to grow a few fields of michelia from this lot. Not far off is Tetrapanax papifera. Search the blog database to see how this…