6th May

…4 year old Japanese ones are flowering. Magnolia kobus is very good. Several hybrids are well open i.e nigra, Brozzoni, alba, superba and speciosa etc. Falconeri is just opening. Auklandii…

7th June

…for Scotland, far behind the above. 1897 – JCW The first Tropaeolum speciosum opens, a lot of waterlilies on the big pond out, young shoots of nigra 8 feet high….

20th May

…falconeri) – I am promised a cutting. Rhododendron ‘Colonel Rogers Group’ Camellia ‘Konronkoku’ (‘Nigra’ or ‘Kunlong black’) still had plenty of near black flowers out today. Camellia ‘Konronkoku’ Camellia ‘Konronkoku’…

7th May

…in 1926. No Factum. Mag Wilsonii ⅓ open. Mag nigra good. Not 6 pips of Maddeni hybrids to be seen. Some Azaleas good. 1926 – JCW Loder’s White in the…

29th April

…etc open. 1904 – JCW Carmine pillar opens a bud, several Auklandii’s and an Embothrium or two. Cherries good. 1902 – JCW Heterocycla, Hemonis and Nigra have been moving for…

24th April

…Two plants of Magnolia ‘Holland Red’ (liliiflora nigra hybrid) have flowers at the greenhouse. We had planted this out before but lost it. A smallish shrub for a good place…

15th April

…cleared. They look like Phyllostachys nigra but I do not recollect planting this species here. Bamboo shoots Bamboo shoots Then off to Penvergate. This is the first flowering of Paulownia…

11th April

…the drive in 1990 and now a small neat plant hidden within azaleas. The cross is Magnolia liliiflora ‘Nigra’ x Magnolia stellata ‘Rosea’. A wonderful plant for a small garden…

2nd April

…48 hours of east wind.Magnolia ‘Lili Diva’ (Magnolia liliiflora ‘Nigra’ x Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’) does not have a picture of itself in the new Eisenhut book but this looks good….

30th March

…Magnolia lilliflora nigra and their various hybrids exhibit this characteristic. Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’, and Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ are perhaps the best examples but the secondary flowers are often a muddy purple…

29th March

…just out. Not perhaps as striking as it was last year. Magnolia ‘Amethyst Flame’ Magnolia ‘Amethyst Flame’ Magnolia ‘Lili Diva’ (Magnolia liliiflora ‘Nigra’ x Magnolia sprengeri diva) has been frosted…

8th March

…was bred by Vance Hooper in New Zealand and is M. liliiflora ‘Nigra’ x M. soulangeana ‘San Jose’. Our plant from Lunaplant Jan 2024. Magnolia ‘Touch of Class’ Also a…

9th December

…recently arrived from Pavia for growing on and planting out. – Corylus yunnanensis – Corylus ferox var. tibetica – Juglans nigra ‘Laciniata’ – Juglans microcarpa – Quercus skinneri – Quercus…