…Azalea ‘Lemonara’ Azalea ‘Lemonara’ Gibraltar – five plants in this group mysteriously dead Azalea ‘Gibraltar’ Strawberry Ice – the best of the five separate clumps today Azalea ‘Strawberry Ice’ Azalea…

…in tight bud. Others, elsewhere, now properly out. Magnolia wilsonii Magnolia ernestii (formerly Michelia wilsonii) about ready to drop its last flowers after being out for five weeks. The yellow…

…it really. Dutch trying to sell on a silly but marketable name again. Hydrangea ‘Black Diamonds’ Hydrangea ‘Black Diamonds’ Agapanthus ‘Golden Drop’ – in flower at last with pale blue…

…‘Southern Belle’ smelling disgusting (as it was last week)! Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ Magnolia obovata ‘Pink Flush’ smelling about ok with a hint of lemon! Magnolia obovata ‘Pink Flush’ Magnolia obovata…

…is rain battered but Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ is just coming out beside it. Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ Buds showing up already on Magnolia tamaulipana. They would normally not…

…one old spreading plant survives. It does have broader leaves than Magnolia wilsonii but too high up to smell if it has a lemon scent. Photography difficult and the plant…

…a nice pink Rhododendron arboreum at Donkey Shoe which was planted as ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ which it probably is not. Sir Charles has a white flower according to the reference…

…Aristolochia sempervirens Aristolochia sempervirens Taiwania cryptomeroides with its new growth. Taiwania cryptomeroides Lemon scented flowers on Magnolia grandiflora ‘Russet’. Magnolia grandiflora ‘Russet’ 2017 – CHW Time to take consolation in…

…or two of their own garden this spring. These were auctioned in Lemon Street Market to raise funds for The Cornwall Community Foundation. This is one of the Caerhays pictures…

…Styrax japonica best thing in the place. Then the young leaves of the Rho Sir Charles Lemon. Several good Auriculatum hybrids. Didymum Rho good, also one Prophantum. Wet the last…

…of the flower trusses have now dropped their seed heads which had not set and have simply dropped off. Those few which have set and swollen are still far from…

…japonicus ‘Pendulus’ Aesculus wangii still in full leaf. The one in Kennel Close, which is more exposed, has dropped. Aesculus wangii A fine show of Camellia x williamsii ‘JC Williams’…

…colour already and may drop soon in pots. Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wisley Bonfire’ Weinmannia trichosperma in flower in the show tunnel. I think it normally flowers in the spring. I have…

…species are setting seeds while this Mexican species is in flower. Meliosma dentata Meliosma dentata Meliosma dentata Torreya nucifera covered in fruits which are already ripe and dropping. This young…

…had berries of some sort. Three or four species had as yet unripe berries and one had berries dropping. Many of the names are unpronounceable.Cotoneaster wilsonii which performed well last…

…village of Frosterley. The snowberries were very fine and just starting to drop off the trees in a wind. Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus Symphoricarpos albus var. laevigatus A magnificent Sequoiadendron…

…speciosa ‘Geisha Girl’ has, for the first time, small round yellow quinces which are already starting to drop. They are well hidden in the low growing shrub and not yet…

…top of a small tree in Old Park and had feared squirrel damage but the leaf curling is a sign of impending leaf drop as here. The 3 pictures show…

…the insatiable wasps. Camellia taliensis Camellia taliensis Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ with yet more secondary buds in November. A crop in September have dropped or turned to brown mush. Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ A…

…drop another year or perhaps try it now. Nothofagus fusca Nothofagus fusca Good seed pods on Enkianthus serrulatus. Not many and all gathered. No other enkianthus nearby so should come…