3rd April

…Superba’ MAGNOLIA officialis ‘Bilboa’ Apart from being untidy there are good displays from the 1920s original and newish Magnolia soulangeanas and especially soulangeana ‘Alba Superba’. Magnolia officinalis biloba is still…

8th April

…Cornish Lithium site at United Downs. Cornish Lithium site at United Downs White violets at Burncoose. White violets In the conservatory Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Tom Thumb’ and Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’. Pittosporum…

28th October

…royalii yellow hybrid good by Donkey Shoe. Rho Yellow Hammer nice. Hardly a sign of Decorum or its hybrids. Mag officinalis fell down on 26th behind big Fastuosum Bamboo 51…

12th July

…guessed that this was a Stachys or a Lamium species but, as ever, this is a whole new botanical subject. Stachys officinalis or Betony featured in this diary last August…

25th August

…Magnolia officinalis var biloba in Penvergate to see if this has seed pods too. Time for Asia to watch the various new species/forms of paulownia which we saw flower in…

1st July

…japonicus ‘Emerald Pagoda’ Styrax japonicus ‘Emerald Pagoda’ Magnolia obovata ‘Pink Flush’ is quite like Magnolia officinalis biloba but flowering three months later. Really pink on the outside of the tepals…

17th September

…or Jaimie to collect the huge seed pod on Magnolia officinalis var biloba in Penvergate in 10 days or so. We all agree it is a bad magnolia seedling year…