…– CHW Off to Forty Acres wood to check the American magnolia collection.I can see from the drive that it has been blown and frosted away much like last year…

…of these new camellia species. Camellia chekiangoleosa Then off to Forty Acres in the sun to view the American magnolia plantings now 15 plus years on. Plenty of room to…

…The names of the varieties have long since been lost but there are still clumps on Burns Bank and in this bed by the tower. American breeders have added many…

…insipid and revolting ‘new’ magnolia colour yet. You would not inflict it even on your mother-in-law. Clearly an American product presumably as seed via the Magnolia Society International. MAGNOLIA ‘Green…

…the new American ‘girls’ in the Heather Garden. These were crosses between Magnolia stellata and lilliflora nigra and have achieved 15ft spans, 10ft or so high in 40 years. There…

…the Mediterranean biome. Surely it is a South American plant? (Yes – as the label admits.) Jacaranda mimosifolia I thought these were lachenalia, a South African bulby thing, but the…

…in the centre of 40 Acres Wood but here is Jaimie and Michael’s update. Originally these were all American Gresham and Pickard’s hybrids but we have added more recently. A…

…with us in his youth and from time to time since.Another yellow magnolia. This one is Magnolia ‘Ossies Yellow’ after the American breeder, Oswald Bloomhardt. Quite an infusion of green…

…an American cross between Camellia saluenensis and Camellia reticulata ‘Buddha’. Quite some cross but I have missed the flowers opening which would have shown a tight whorl of petals in…

…if it is not. An odd coloured single red. camellia pitardii camellia pitardii Camellia ‘Tiny Princess’ is an American raised cross between Camellia japonica ‘Akebono’ and Camellia fraterna. We looked…