30th March

…improvement on the pinks and well worth growing. Magnolia x loebneri ‘Champaign’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Champaign’ Wild collected Rhododendron racemosum in Old Park flowering especially well. Rhododendron racemosum Rhododendron racemosum…

7th October

…after searching for many years. Delivery of masumae cherries Delivery of masumae cherries 2015 – CHWThe eucryphias are all very late this year and Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ still looks…

20th October

…Sorbus hupehensis with pinkish berries. Hillier’s now calls this Sorbus pseudohupehensis or ‘Pink Pagoda’. Sorbus hupehensis Another picture of the Sorbus/Malus (?) with autumn colour below Slip Rail. Sorbus/Malus (?)…

18th October

…Callicarpa shirasawana Callicarpa shirasawana Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus with its globular succulent black fruits hanging on the leafless tree. Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus Photinia niitakayamensis with pinkish-red fruits. Photinia…

17th October

…CHW Leslie Baker told me he had his first flower on his Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ so I visited our original tree (as it now is) today in the…

12th October

…The first flowers on our recently planted white Lapageria. white Lapageria The pink one in flower beside it. pink Lapageria 2022 – CHW The Liquidambar’s start to turn colour. Liquidambar’s…

19th December

…known as ‘Cornish Snow Michael’. Earlier into flower than the more commonly grown form and without the purplish tint on the leaves. A hint of pink on a few of…

8th October

…this time of the year. Also planted last spring. Buddleia heliophila Buddleia heliophila Buddleia heliophila Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ has even darker rich, pinkish-red bark than the quite…

4th November

…dad went to show it to him perhaps 30 to 35 years ago. Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Azalea ‘Greenway’ has three pink buds. Often an odd out of…

Tregrehan Gardens Visit – 15th March 2019

…with a flower Podocarpus matudae with huge podocarps Illicium mexicanum in full flower Rhododendron prostitum seedlings. Pink at first fading to near white. Rhododendron rireii – the best form I…