…Baldick’s New Zealand hybrids, has a few flowers blown open at least two and a half months early. A dark colour though. Magnolia ‘Ians Red’ Magnolia ‘Suzanna van Veen’ is…

…most floriferous and impressive today. Worth naming or has it already been? To research. Similar to ‘Gwarvas’ perhaps? Camellia x williamsii hybrids Camellia x williamsii hybrids Camellia x williamsii hybrids…

…my father’s azalea hybrids. Really quite nice and possibly worth a name? my father’s azalea hybrids my father’s azalea hybrids 2016 – CHW An early morning tour of the garden…

…and Gmail access will still be necessary nearish there. Technologically illiterate I admit! So now time to investigate Hydrangea paniculata hybrids on the drive which are coming out and making…

…roylii hybrids Rhododendron roylii hybrids 2017 – CHW To Burncoose for the annual meeting with our main Dutch supplier. A low flower on a 25 year old Aesculus wilsonii full…

…the best show of any of the 12 aesculus species and hybrids now flowering away here today. This one is an excellent plant for a smaller garden. Ours was planted…

…late into flower. elliotii hybrids elliotii hybrids Pittosporum adaphniphylloides has made exceptional new growth. Pittosporum adaphniphylloides Pittosporum adaphniphylloides Still plenty of flowers on Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’. Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ Illicium…

…best thing. Some Broughtonii hybrids hold on, Standish hybrids good. Some Yunnanense x Roylei are opening. R augustinii well over. Azaleas and Mrs Butlers in the beech Walk are good….

…looks much more like a Rhododendron royalii cross to me. Rhododendron haemaleum var. atrorubrum Rhododendron ‘Damaris’ on the main path. It used to be one of the best yellow hybrids…

…now 650 magnolia species and hybrids in the collection as well as a new collection of wild sourced Chinese rhododendron species. So we are still expanding and now have a…

…laid out for inspection in the Georgian Hall. Over 20 species and hybrids laid out for inspection Over 20 species and hybrids laid out for inspection We had thought most…

…A batch of rhododendron hybrids have arrived from Burncoose for planting in the FJW memorial garden. rhododendron hybrids 2019 – CHW Starting to get to grips with replying to the…

…however when finished until the wind blows again. 1940 – CW First Sutchuenense hybrids out also Arboreum thomsonii x. Camellia sasanqua, double white, speciosa and its light and dark pink…

…williamsii hybrids below are well out now too as usual just below. unnamed x williamsii hybrids unnamed x williamsii hybrids 2015 – CHW The nerine bed has only a very…

…years ago. Several of his own magnolia hybrids live on and will impress for many decades to come. Magnolia ‘Albatross’ Good colour on an Embothrium lanceolatum which seems to want…

…Hammer, white double Azalea and bits of one yellow below Hovel road. Bits of Davidsonianum and Sutchuenense hybrids. No reds. Bits of Azalea Amoena and several Kurume. 1940 – CW…

…Polyspora longicarpa The laurel hedge is progressing. laurel hedge Along the way a camellia gets a haircut. camellia gets a haircut Dad’s azalea hybrids covered in flower. Dad’s azalea hybrids…

…hall, several good hybrids open. 1927 – JCW E darlyense starts, some Lapagerias, Blood red hybrids have been out for a month, no daffs. Mucronulatum, H mollis and Camellia sasanquas…

…but others at their best. Campbellii the same but later than Robusta. Daffodils late and ground very wet, still hail showing. Blood Reds going over, also some of Saluenensis hybrids….

…open above Rogers Quarry. Indecently early year. 1925 – JCW Argenteum ¼ open. Barbatum a few, some Lutescens, Flavidum none, Sutchuenensis a few, hybrids of Sut’ se several, a few…