3rd February 1897 – 2020

…open early but the colour is good even if the flowers are small. Colour varies. Those blown open early are too pale but some are a good dark colour as…

30th January 1897 – 2020

…I admired shortly before Jeremy Peter-Hoblyn’s recent untimely death or a seedling from the original. It is a wonderful dark pink and, as you would expect from a campbellii, a…

17th September

…x Magnolia ‘Vulcan’ Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ with very dark and very late secondary flowers which have been attacked by slugs and snails. Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ The clump of Chusquea gigantia…

14th January 1897- 2020

…a bad ornamental plant for a dark corner. Here it is being enveloped by a podocarpus. Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Aureomarginatus’ Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Aureomarginatus’ This oak limb quickly cut up and sorted…

10th January 1897- 2020

…‘Lipstick’. A wonderful dark anemone form but is it so different from Camellia ‘Anemoniflora’? Camellia ‘Lipstick’ Some split branches on Magnolia delavayi at the top of the garden so we…

8th January 1897- 2020

…its location in the garden. Camellia ‘Tregye’ Camellia ‘Tregye’ Camellia ‘Tregye’ Camellia ‘Sundae’ is new to the 2018 catalogue. Rather like Camellia ‘Bokuhen’ I think? Even Camellia ‘Amemoniflora’ but darker?…

1st January 1897 – 2020

…evident. Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ A good dark form of Rhododendron mucronulatum above the two Magnolia veitchii shows up nicely. A darker and larger flower, I think, than the other two…

April 2024 Ireland Trip (Day 2)

…am fairly certain. Viburnum species Viburnum species Viburnum species Rhododendron albrechtii – a particularly dark flowered form and much darker than the ones in the Aucklandii Garden. Rhododendron albrechtii A…

The Cornwall Garden Society spring show

…fasciculatus Pittosporum fasciculatum – large dark purple flowers. Pittosporum fasciculatum Coprosma virescens – tiny leaves. Coprosma virescens Alseuosmia banksii – yellowish ‘fuchsia-like’ flowers. Alseuosmia banksii Alseuosmia banksii Olearia erubescens –…

April 2018 Irish trip (Day 4)

…in no time and needs the council money. greenhouse The climbing Hydrangea serratifolia with leaves much larger than ours. Hydrangea serratifolia Hydrangea serratifolia Rhododendron ‘Queen of Hearts’ a very dark

22nd September

…A fine array of Dicksonia antarctica seedlings are coming up here and there in dark shady wet places around the fernery. Dicksonia antarctica Dicksonia antarctica Yet more unusual fungi which…

6th March

dark pink flowers and an exceptional cherry which I first saw at the Savill Gardens years ago. Three plants in a clump in Tin Garden. Wonderful bark as well. Prunus…

15th September

…elderly Magnolia soulangeana on the Burncoose drive has many, dark purple, secondary flowers. Magnolia soulangeana Last few flowers on Weigela coraeensis at the entrance to Burncoose gardens – these age…

24th March

…our plant. It may be another species of Melicytus or it may not but we do have another plant with smaller darker leaves which looks more true to name. Schinus…

15th May

…Slipper’ Azalea ‘Silver Slipper’ Azalea ‘Silver Slipper’ Podocarpus lawrencei ‘Purple King’ may have very dark old leaves but the new growth is delightful. Podocarpus lawrencei ‘Purple King’ Podocarpus lawrencei ‘Purple…

13th May

…flowers when full out unlike the one in the Rockery seen last week. It is not quite a lilac form but there are much darker ones when one inspects the…

11th May

…out a week or so before (this proved not to be correct). Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ Aesculus woerlitzensis with dark red flowers. Aesculus woerlitzensis Aesculus woerlitzensis Aesculus bushii…

5th May

…evergreen leaves? Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’ Staphylea colchica ‘Black Beauty’ now into leaf. It will get darker yet. Staphylea colchica ‘Black Beauty’ Juglans major has interesting new growth. As nice as…

27th April

…a Sambucus seedling collected and named by Sir Harold Hillier while at Guincho. It has dark, but not exactly black, leaves as we see. Melicytus obovatus Click here for the…

21st April

…their best, some very good Augustinii. Daffs at the tail end. Auklandii a few good trees in flower, the frost having cut most of them. One cherry (dark one) is…