RHS Savill Garden Pictures 2018

…x thompsonii) Rhododendron ‘Lady Linlithgow’ Rhododendron ‘Lady Linlithgow’ Rhododendron ‘Lady Linlithgow’ Wonderful peeling park on this young Stewartia sinensis planted in 2008. Useful for my forthcoming stewartia article. Stewartia sinensis

Visit to Tregrehan – 5th October

…with the same name on Burns Bank. Camellia sinensis (the tea tree) Camellia sinensis (the tea tree) Camellia brevistyla from Taiwan is also already in flower. We may have lost…

The Cornwall Garden Society spring show

…with ripe podocarps. Podocarpus matudae Podocarpus matudae Podocarpus matudae Cephalotaxus sinensis (new to me – seems very like Cephalotaxus fortunei?). Cephalotaxus sinensis Cephalotaxus sinensis Melicytus alpinus – Roy Lancaster, the…

A trip to Tregrehan to study Hydrangeas

…‘Evening Light’ Styrax japonica ‘Evening Light’ Ripening seed on Illicium simonsii. Illicium simonsii Illicium simonsii Dregea sinensis growing through a camellia. Dregea sinensis Dregea sinensis Hydrangea anomala ssp. petiolaris (Emei…

2nd January 1897- 2020

…Office. cryptomeria Pseudocydonia sinensis Pseudocydonia sinensis Just look at the white undersides of the leaves on one ilex oak (still) being battered by the wind. ilex oak (background) 2005 –…

8th February 1897 – 2020

…at this time of the year with peeling more or less complete for the season. Stewartia sinensis Stewartia sinensis Acacia melanoxylon full out on a 70ft tree near the house….

11th June 1897 – 2020

…30 to 40 buds and flowers today. Worth a proper name I think. Magnolia sieboldii sinensis x virginiana Magnolia sieboldii sinensis x virginiana Our third plant of Magnolia dealbata is…

7th June 1897 – 2020

sinensis x Magnolia virginiana Magnolia sieboldii sinensis x Magnolia virginiana A tail end flower on a small plant of Michelia foggii ‘Jack Fogg’. Michelia foggii ‘Jack Fogg’ The first flowers…

4th June 1897 – 2020

…seeds to key it out in full even if the calyxes look right. Stewartia sinensis Stewartia sinensis Stewartia monodelpha about to flower. I am reasonably confident that this young plant…

1st June 1897 – 2020

…email and archive pictures relating to Magnolia sieboldii sinensis. The pictures of our own plants’ leaves are attached. They are not as rounded as the herbarium specimens but just as…

29th May 1897 – 2020

…Magnolia sieboldii sinensis x virginiana. Not as good as ‘Porcelain Dove’ but well worth its place. No flowers yet out on Magnolia virginiana itself. Magnolia sieboldii sinensis x virginiana Magnolia…

19th May 1897 – 2020

…has exceptional spring new growth as well as autumn colour. Nyssa sinensis Nyssa sinensis Rhododendron polyandrum and Rhododendron crassum are very similar. The difference seems to be the contorted branch…

3rd May 1897 – 2020

…Phyllocladus glauca Phyllocladus glauca Phyllocladus glauca Gleditsia sinensis – with huge thorns to stop animals climbing the tree. Gleditsia sinensis Gleditsia sinensis Davidia involucrata var. vilmorimana ‘Golden Birr’ has golden…

30th April 1897 – 2020

…var subcordata Magnolia acuminata var subcordata Magnolia acuminata var subcordata The first time I have seen Magnolia ‘Jersey Belle’ in flower. A cross between Magnolia wilsonii and Magnolia sinensis but…

29th April 1897 – 2020

…the first time. Magnolia sieboldii sinensis Magnolia sieboldii sinensis Magnolia sieboldii ‘Mishiko Renge’ now full out. Magnolia sieboldii ‘Mishiko Renge’ Magnolia sieboldii ‘Mishiko Renge’ After the rain several rhododendrons are…

20th April 1897 – 2020

…the long wait has been worthwhile. Nor, unsurprisingly, have I yet seen a quince come to that! Pseudocydonia sinensis Pseudocydonia sinensis Picea smithiana with attractive drooping light green new growth….

2nd January

…spreading Taiwannia cryptomeroides has, at last, developed a leading shoot. Taiwannia cryptomeroides Pseudocydonia sinensis still with plenty of leaves and plenty of new growth in a more sheltered area than…

12th February

…‘Grandiflora’ at its best. Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Grandiflora’ Sycopsis sinensis nearly evergreen. Sycopsis sinensis Sycoparrotia semidecidua leafless with the flowers nearly over. Sycoparrotia semidecidua Frost damage on Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’ even…

18th February

…Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ in flower rather unexpectedly early. Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ As usual Pseudocydonia sinensis with extremely early new growth. Pseudocydonia sinensis The Pittosporum and Ceanothus beds well stocked and…

21st March

…sieboldii Corylopsis sinensis ‘Spring Purple’ now well out but no new red leaves showing yet. Corylopsis sinensis ‘Spring Purple’ 2023 – CHW The original RHS herbarium record of Camellia saluenensis…