14th February
…Prunus x incam ‘Okame’ (‘Okame’ to us!), a Collingwood Ingram cherry hybrid, are just out by the tower. Hillier’s says it flowers in March. Each year these trees become more…
…Prunus x incam ‘Okame’ (‘Okame’ to us!), a Collingwood Ingram cherry hybrid, are just out by the tower. Hillier’s says it flowers in March. Each year these trees become more…
…Saxifraga ‘Black Ruby’ Saxifraga ‘Black Ruby’ Libertia caerulescens – a very late flower with seed pods. Libertia caerulescens Sarcocca wallichii – no great smell yet and early. Sarcocca wallichii Sarcocca…
…‘Black Swan’ Fagus sylvatica ‘Black Swan’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ just out. Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ A young Magnolia nitida getting going. Magnolia nitida Michelia x foggii ‘Allspice’ perfect…
…rounded flower. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x ‘Deep Purple Dream’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x ‘Deep Purple Dream’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Titan’ – first flowering and not quite what I would expect…
…against the Pentewan granite. Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ The Magnolia delavayi hedge all along the wall below the lawn was trimmed back hard two and a…
…The view from the entrance to the (Upper) Rockery The Caerhays bred Azalea ‘Black Hawk’ and Rhododendron reticulatum out together. Azalea ‘Black Hawk’ Menziesia ciliicalyx ‘Honshu Blue’ in flower in…
…‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. liliiflora ‘Holland Red’ with a single flower. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. liliiflora ‘Holland Red’ Camellia ‘Fairy Blush’ and some of the…
…williamsii ‘Les Jury’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Les Jury’ Then on the Isla Rose Plantation. Another plant of Magnolia ‘Black Swan’ in the Isla Rose. Magnolia ‘Black Swan’ Magnolia ‘Darkest Purple’…
…Magnolia stellata x Magnolia liliiflora nigra. To check. Ah see here comments by Jim Gardiner on the 10th – sigh! M. ‘Black Tulip’ x M. ‘Deep Purple Dream’ M. ‘Black…
…x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ – they really are black. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Black Beauty’ Enormous flower clusters on an elderly Illicum anisatum in full shade. The old plant may well…