…as Magnolia ‘Genie’ from a day ago. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ is now full out too. What an impressive…

…x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ – they really are black. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Enormous flower clusters on an elderly Illicum anisatum in full shade. The old plant may well…

…Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ nicely out by the drawing room window. It shows up well against the Pentewan granite. Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ The Magnolia delavayi…

…Magnolia stellata x Magnolia liliiflora nigra. To check. Ah see here comments by Jim Gardiner on the 10th – sigh! M. ‘Black Tulip’ x M. ‘Deep Purple Dream’ M. ‘Black…

…M. ‘Black Tulip’ below Donkey Shoe. No hybrid name as far as I can see. Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’ Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’ Bluebottle…

…‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. liliiflora ‘Holland Red’ with a single flower. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. liliiflora ‘Holland Red’ Camellia ‘Fairy Blush’ and some of the…

…here! Ucodendron whatonii Ucodendron whatonii Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ in bud and flower. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ What I am now certain is…

…First flowers (and very early) on Azalea ‘Black Hawk’. Azalea ‘Black Hawk’ The view from Rookery across to the Drimys winteri and the Magnolia campbellii ‘Alba’ seedling with a Rhododendron…

…change our mind. Blackcurrants, gooseberries and redcurrants Blackcurrants, gooseberries and redcurrants Blackcurrants, gooseberries and redcurrants Triteleia laxa is one of those bulbous plants whose leaves die just before they flower….

…tree on a bank. The pheasants have already eaten the few black berries there were this year. Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cotoneaster franchetii still covered in…