…flower with leaves appearing. Magnolia ‘Dark Bird’ This is a surprise. A really fantastic yellow magnolia on Burns Bank. Larger and darker yellow flowers (with some green) than ‘Limelight’ or…

…weather to come? 2022 – CHW A dark seedling form of Camellia saluenensis above the greenhouse is already shedding flowers. The old original by the ladies loo is about as…

…a woodland setting. Scilla bifolia Camellia ‘Black Magic’ almost black in bud. Camellia ‘Black Magic’ Camellia ‘Black Magic’ Magnolias tower over the woodland valley garden. The dark one may well…

…x Magnolia denudata) nearly full out and very dark against a dark sky. Planted in 2006 and already 20ft x 15ft. Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ Magnolia ‘Shirazz’ Michelia doltsopa just…

…flowering white. Suckers must go! Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Camellia japonica ‘Midnight Magic’ still flowering well and a very dark red. Camellia japonica ‘Midnight Magic’ Camellia japonica ‘Midnight Magic’ Last flower…

…slightly less dark red and slightly more reddish- orange. The leaf and habit is as a tall shrub with slightly pendulous branches and is the same. another fine plant another…

…solandri ‘Aurea’ Olearia solandri ‘Aurea’ Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’ is living up to its name. Very dark coloured flowers indeed and much darker than last year’s. Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’ Magnolia ‘March-till-Frost’ Huge seed…

…serrulatus to the dark red colours on the plant (a layer) which Tom gave us and I photographed rather earlier in the autumn. Enkianthus serrulatus The largest and oldest of…

…a New Zealand bred japonica hybrid and is described as dark red with bluish tints. Is it because it is so early that the colour is really not ‘dark red’…

…On the top wall Dierama pulcherrimum in full flower. Some flowers are very dark and some have unusual and different striping. The dark flowers are Dierama pulcherrimum ‘Blackbird’ but I…