…prize for this though. Camellia ‘Lipstick’ Camellia ‘Sweet Jane’ a new Camellia transnokoensis hybrid so probably very tender. Better just opening than full out as you can see. Camellia ‘Sweet…

…wood and back to the house which has just been reopened. avenue avenue The largest sweet chestnut I have seen other than at Belvoir. sweet chestnut The new circle in…

…Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ The Rhododendron ‘Harrow Hybrids on Horel Cart Road from above. Rhododendron ‘Harrow Hybrids’ In the Main quarry Rhododendron fortunei ssp discolor is making a…

…is a perennial. Senecio jacobaea Senecio jacobaea Hypericum androsaemum, Sweet Amber, is a native shrubby perennial. The nursery sells improved forms of this Hypericum species but I have seldom seen…

…open pollenated seed from the Chollipo Arboretum in South Korea. Magnolia x veitchii Magnolia x veitchii Magnolia x veitchii Magnolia ‘Sweet Merlot’ beside it. Magnolia ‘Sweet Merlot’ Suddenly 3 dead…

…at the show. Agastache ‘Kudos Coral’ Hydrangea arborescens ‘Sweet Annabelle’ has also been bought in as large plants (for £9.95 each) but the flowers are rather a letdown and not…

…removal elsewhere along the top path in Old Park. elsewhere along the top path in Old Park A sweet chestnut trunk moved on into Lawn Field. sweet chestnut Horrendous deer…

…and a Magnolia campbellii Alba Group seedling growing side by side. Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ Flowers showing on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which got dieback in 2018 and a pruning by…

…colour on the pruned back Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Stachyurus lancifolia has sprung open earlier than usual. Now renamed Stachyurus praecox var. matsuzakii according to Hilliers who say…

…Park. Impressively quick growth into a sizeable small tree. Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Tree surgeons felling some elderly sweet chestnuts in Old Park. sweet chestnuts Camellia sasanqua ‘Yume’…

…‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ with plenty of buds high up. A very columnar habit. Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’…

…perhaps slightly frosted in bud Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ a Gresham hybrid. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ The Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta in the Rireii Opening is just starting. Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta…

…unusual situation with imported magnolias from New Zealand. Magnolia ‘Plum Pudding’ Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ – a new young plant doing better than our much older one which had to be…

…dry May. The Azaleas well over. 1909 – JCW Viburnum plicatum nearly at best, Auklandii’s over, Azaleas very good, Fortunei sweet scented good but passing. C montana rubra over, Dalhousi…

…sasanqua ‘Sweet Jane’ – likewise. Camellia sasanqua ‘Sweet Jane’ Camellia ‘Spring Festival’ – ditto. Camellia ‘Spring Festival’ Camellia ‘Spring Mist’ Camellia ‘Spring Mist’ Prunus maakii ‘Amber Beauty’ – glorious in…

…Sequoiadendron giganteum ‘Pygmaeum’ A gnarled old sweet chestnut that may or may not have passed the annual health and safety tree inspection report. sweet chestnut 2016 – CHW Amid the…

…have lasted at least five weeks this year. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Still a few flowers on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which we saw showing colour in the first week of March…

…a tree. Attractive flowers. Euphorbia stygiana Euphorbia stygiana A very late flower on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ after its drought/cold dieback and pruning last year. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Vesta’…

…us to cut off the younger shoots from the base of sweet chestnuts to avoid them getting infected with Phytophthora ramorum and eventually infecting the elderly trees. We are compliant!…

…dasystyla Viburnum prunifolium, the ‘black haw’ is its common name and you can readily see why! The fruits are sweet and edible. One to take to the Garden Society dinner…