…full out and dropping. Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia ‘Fairy White’ – just a very few tail end flowers. Michelia ‘Fairy White’ The full extent of the area for new planting…

…Helleborus ‘Penny’s Pink’ Helleborus ‘Emma’ Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’ Helleborus ‘Molly’s White’ Helleborus ‘Moondance’ – gorgeous leaves. Helleborus ‘Moondance’ Helleborus ‘Moondance’ Helleborus ‘Moondance’ Pulmonaria ‘Opal’ – nice flower but poor foliage…

…to white. Camellia ‘Kitty’ Camellia ‘Kitty’ Styrax americanus has struggled with dieback in the exposed Isla Rose Plantation. Wrong place for it. Styrax americanus The odd new bit of reversion…

…few whites. Some Styrax but Michelia by Engine House flowered for first time. Buds take long to open. Flower very white – 6 inches across, petals don’t overlap but very…

…magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ The sad remains of the flowers of Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’. Shrivelled and rejected. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ Strangely the 20 autumn planted Matsumae cherries below White Styles are all fine…

…now as follows:Meliosma dilleniifolia (upright panicles of flowers) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. cuneifolia (plumes of creamy white flowers with hawthorn-like fragrance) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa (pendant terminal panicles of fragrant white…

…var. fraxinifolium Styrax hookeri var. yunnanensis. I wonder if it really is true to name? Nothing like S. hookeri really. Styrax hookeri var. yunnanensis Styrax americanus – Kankakee form –…

…under the leaf suggests a white form of Rhododendron arboreum. Perhaps not quite pure and out a bit early for arboreum perhaps but one hell of an advert for rhododendrons…

…‘Hooker’ is another new one – an odd shaped single. I wonder about the origins of the name? Camellia ‘Hooker’ Camellia ‘Carolyn Tuttle’ is also new. Camellia ‘Carolyn Tuttle’ Camellia…

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…azalea Ribes sanguineum ‘White Icicle’ just coming out. Some light pink in the bud opening white. Ribes sanguineum ‘White Icicle’ The view from the drive over to Giddle Orchard and…

…Belle’ Rhododendron siderophyllum (pure white form) nicely out nearby. Rhododendron siderophyllum Rhododendron siderophyllum On the plans this is a home raised FJW rhododendron. It looks today a Rhododendron sutchuanense seedling…

…cash point. This variety is a sport of ‘Betty Sheffield’ which is pure white! ‘Betty Sheffield Supreme’ has red frills so we appear to have propagated a branch that has…

…yesterday. A very slight pink flush at the base of the opening flower which fades to near white. Magnolia ‘Tranquillity’ Magnolia ‘Tranquillity’ Paulownia kawakamii is not going to flower profusely…

…the road. I wonder how long the council will take to repair it? I would not be surprised if the road is now closed for months and months. Certainly dangerous…

…its bulbous white flowers. Trevarno has a superb Agathis australis, which I had then never seen before. I wonder if it still survives today under Russian ownership? Trevarno (after Peter’s…

…lilac) in flower. I do not think I have ever spotted this out before although seed has been collected and grown. White flowers contrast with the foliage. Few flowers for…

…maddenii Frankie moves on! Frankie moves on! Frankie moves on! Frankie moves on! Deutzia ningpoensis below White Styles. Deutzia ningpoensis Deutzia ningpoensis Deutzia subulata. Deutzia subulata Deutzia pulchra (Roy Lancaster…

…rigida Verbena rigida Verbena rigida Another gaura which is white. Pretty flowers but Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ is hardly a sensible name! Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ Gypsophila paniculata ‘Snowflake’…

…Rival’ And we wonder why branches break off on young magnolias! Six pheasants drying off on this small tree. pheasants drying off 2022 – CHW Schima superba just out into…