…The three Fairy Michelias all just out together in a row. Michelia ‘Fairy Blush’ – just out. Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ – full out and dropping. Michelia ‘Fairy…

…drive. Azalea ‘Delicatissimum’ Magnolia ‘Peaches and Cream’ – whats in a name like this? Magnolia ‘Peaches and Cream’ A young Sorbus hedlundii in flower. Sorbus hedlundii Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ x M….

…Magnolia ‘Fairy Cream’ is still in tight bud. Magnolia ‘Fairy Cream’ The rest of the elderly Gevuina avellana has blown open. Last year we cut down most of it as…

…Helen’ and M. ‘Apollo’. Magnolia ‘Tikitere’ Magnolia ‘Tikitere’ Michelia ‘Fairy Blush’ is still in tight bud. If you grew the four fairies in a row (Blush, White, Cream and Lime)…

…loderi Rhododendron loderi Magnolia ‘Peaches ‘n’ Cream’ seems very like ‘Peachy’ and ‘Daybreak’?! Perhaps I am being unfair to a first single flower. Magnolia ‘Peaches ‘n’ Cream’ Magnolia ‘Paul Cook’…

…on ready to be planted out next spring. We seem to have ‘Fairy Cream’ and ‘Fairy White’ doing well but not ‘Blush’ or ‘Fairy Lime’ as yet. Michelia ‘Fairy Blush’…

…Pittosporum adaphniphylloides Swelling buds on Magnolia ‘Fairy Cream’. Magnolia ‘Fairy Cream’ Our layers on Rhododendron griffithianum need moving next spring and have clearly developed their own roots. Rhododendron griffithianum Still…

…‘Shiranami’ Magnolia (Michelia) ‘Fairy Lime’ has just arrived. Nice plants. We already have a ‘Fairy White’, a ‘Fairy Blush’, and a ‘Fairy Cream’ and all three have grown and flowered…

…mildly of face cream. Bowkeria verticellata Bowkeria verticellata Delphinium ‘Bolero’ is a double lavender blue but not quite out yet. Dwarfish growing. Delphinium ‘Bolero’ We have all voted Brexit in…

…Prunus matsumae ‘Beni-Yutaka’ Prunus matsumae ‘Beni-Yutaka’ Rhododendron sinogrande ‘Lord Rudolph’ is pink in bud opening to the more normal cream colour. Rhododendron sinogrande ‘Lord Rudolph’ Rhododendron sinogrande ‘Lord Rudolph’ Camellia…