…Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ with plenty of buds high up. A very columnar habit. Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ now…

…this year. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Still a few flowers on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which we saw showing colour in the first week of March (or was it late February?). Magnolia…

…Camellia japonica ‘White Nun’ A secondary flower on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ A remarkable find. Clusters of acorns forming on the old original Lithocarpus cleistocarpus although there are…

…absolute best. Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ The New Zealand Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ and a Magnolia campbellii Alba Group seedling growing side by side. Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ Flowers showing on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’…

…the pruned back Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Stachyurus lancifolia has sprung open earlier than usual. Now renamed Stachyurus praecox var. matsuzakii according to Hilliers who say it is…

…which has just been reopened. avenue avenue The largest sweet chestnut I have seen other than at Belvoir. sweet chestnut The new circle in the centre of what was the…

…a stand out bronze-purple-red. Liquidamber acalycina Secondary new growth on Betula fansipanensis’ also a pleasant bronze at first. Betula fansipanensis A secondary flower on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’…

…Park A bit of tidying, trunk clearance and laurel removal elsewhere along the top path in Old Park. elsewhere along the top path in Old Park A sweet chestnut trunk…

…jacobaea Hypericum androsaemum, Sweet Amber, is a native shrubby perennial. The nursery sells improved forms of this Hypericum species but I have seldom seen this as a wildflower growing here….

…About three or four years from planting. Camellia ‘Cinnamon Candy’ Camellia ‘Cinnamon Candy’ First colour showing on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which was decimated by The Beast last year. Magnolia ‘Sweet…