30th March
…Pompom’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ with its huge near white flowers. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ The huge white Rhododendron arboreum above the Playhouse are at their best even though…
…Pompom’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ with its huge near white flowers. Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ Magnolia ‘Phelan Bright’ The huge white Rhododendron arboreum above the Playhouse are at their best even though…
…battered, is Magnolia campbellii alba ‘Strybing White’. Magnolia campbellii alba ‘Strybing White’ Magnolia campbellii alba ‘Strybing White’ One forgets how much darker the Trewithen sport (of Camellia ‘Donation’) Camellia ‘Celebration’…
…CW Sent off to Munroes both white heath and Darleyense and some hundreds of single Camellias. J.C.W out also double white and a few other doubles out. Rho mucronulatum, Yellow…
…good show on Camellia ‘White Nun’ in a Kennel Close windbreak. Gigantic stamens. Camellia ‘White Nun’ Camellia ‘White Nun’ Camellia saluenensis and Camellia x williamsii ‘Beatrice Michael’. Camellia saluenensis and…
…with the irregular white blotches on some flowers as we expect Camellia ‘Apollo’ Camellia ‘Apollo’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ – as labelled but perhaps incorrectly! Blush is pink in bud…
…flower Geranium maderense. I assume that the sun has bleached the pink-purple flowers white or is this G. palmatum? Either way pure white flowers do not fit the bill! Geranium…
…‘Fairy White’ Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Camellia ‘Leonard Messel’ full out. Look how variable the flowers are in size and frills! This is a Camellia reticulata x Camellia x williamsii cross…
…flowers on Magnolia x veitchii ‘Isca’, the white form. The tree is so tall that one seldom gets close to a flower. The other tree is more white in flower…
…x leucaspis Rhododendron edgeworthii x leucaspis Magnolia ‘Joli Pompom’ is now full out and really excellent (for a pure white). This is now a good seller at Burncoose and deservedly…
…‘Rainbow’ ‘Rainbow’ ‘Rainbow’ ‘Paradise Helen’ ‘Paradise Helen’ ‘Paradise Helen’ ‘Paradise Blush’ ‘Paradise Blush’ ‘Paradise Blush’ ‘Shishigashira’ ‘Shishigashira’ ‘Shishigashira’ ‘Setsugekka’ ‘Setsugekka’ ‘Setsugekka’ ‘Trewithen White’ (ex Trewithen) ‘Trewithen White’ ‘Trewithen White’ ‘Trewithen…
…japonica ‘Veitchii’ just as good beside it. Skimmia japonica ‘Veitchii’ While Skimmia japonica ‘Kew White’ is nearly in flower alongside. Skimmia japonica ‘Kew White’ Corylus avellana ‘Contorta’ with early catkins….
…Camellia x williamsii ‘Ballet Queen Variegated’ The white form of Rhododendron moupinense on the drive. Not a patch on the red form we saw yesterday which Jaimie plans to cross…
…‘White Lace’. Hydrangea paniculata ‘White Lace’ Young Acer campestre showing autumnal yellow. Acer campestre Hydrangea ‘Fireworks Blue’ turning to reddish purple. Hydrangea ‘Fireworks Blue’ First yellowing on Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Aureomarginata’….
…to form outside the converted barns. White Styles drive White Styles drive Contoneaster flinckii nearly ripe. Contoneaster flinckii Contoneaster rubens just turning. Contoneaster rubens Contoneaster rhytidophyllus in a similar state….
…‘Bright Eyes’ and Crocosmia masonorum. Phlox ‘Bright Eyes’ and Crocosmia masonorum Phlox ‘White Admiral’ and Astilbe ‘Federsee. Phlox ‘White Admiral’ and Astilbe ‘Federsee The scent of the sweet peas was…
…by Wisteria sinensis Acer x conspicuum ‘Silver Cardinal’ with, as usual, exceptional secondary new growth which is pink and white becoming mottled green and white. Acer x conspicuum ‘Silver Cardinal’…
…yunnanense The campion on the Playhouse bank has (as usual) white and pink forms. I discover that red campion is Silene dioica and white campion is Silene alba. They readily…
…Blush’. Magnolia ‘Tikitere’ and Magnolia ‘Fairy Blush’ Magnolia ‘Tikitere’ and Magnolia ‘Fairy White’. Magnolia ‘Tikitere’ and Magnolia ‘Fairy White’ Magnolia ‘Fairy Blush’ absolutely splendid today in Old Park. Amazing scent…
…in colour from others photographed recently in the diary. Rhododendron davidsonianum A pure white flowering sport on Azalea ‘Greenway’ which we have propagated from and recently planted three “white” Greenway…
…very late flowering white magnolia on Bond Street below the 4-in-Hand. It is so vigorous and so late that I think it must be the white form of Magnolia x…