…plant by Donkey Shoe and, for now at least, the flowers are larger. What a simply wonderful magnolia this is! Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ A…

…Crug catalogue as Magnolia foveolata. (Sect. Michelia) which it isnt. From your images it is definitely Sect. Manglietia as you suspected with those large terminal flower buds opening early summer….

…must remember to collect seed. Dierama pulcherrimum Dierama pulcherrimum Dierama pulcherrimum Dierama pulcherrimum ‘Blackbird’ 2002 – FJW First hot day of the summer. 1980 – FJW Wet summer. Flowers on…

…planted Magnolia ‘Summer Lady’ from Germany is not that exciting as yet but different. Magnolia ‘Summer Lady’ Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ with Michelia doltsopa behind it. Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ Rhododendron pseudochrysanthemum Rhododendron pseudochrysanthemum…

…year too. Carpinus tuczaninowii Carpinus tuczaninowii Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Summer Sunset’ has a gorgeous mix of leaf colours as the sun bleaches them red. Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Summer Sunset’ Trachelospermum asiaticum ‘Summer…

…the temperature remains at 18-20°c. Malus ‘Jelly King’ with secondary flowers and ripening fruit. The 5th or 6th variety of Malus with secondary autumn flowers here after this peculiar summer….

…our young plants have actually flowered. Dipteronia sinensis Dipteronia sinensis Various suddenly dead rhododendrons in the drought. The last one is the elderly Rhododendron sinogrande which nearly died last summer…

…out flat. This puts it a cut above other named forms. Magnolia laevifolia ‘Summer ‘Solstice’ Magnolia laevifolia ‘Summer ‘Solstice’ Rhododendron niveum every bit as good as what we saw in…

…flower on Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’. Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ Decent flowers on Hydrangea ‘Madame E. Mouillere’ cut back in the summer. Hydrangea ‘Madame E. Mouillere’ 3 flowers out on Camellia japonica…

…and the similar M. ‘Summer Solstice’ are out at the same time. Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ Juglans cinerea just into leaf. Juglans cinerea Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox (2014 planted). The trunk…