…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…

…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…

…Quite a show a little further on. Quite a show A good dark form of Rhododendron augustinii. Rhododendron augustinii First colour on the ancient Playhouse wisteria. Playhouse wisteria Flower buds…

…We have several plants of both varieties at various ages. To my mind Daybreak conjures up a vision of mixed gentle colours while Peachy should be darker.This is labelled Magnolia…

…this was used as the pollen parent for this cross in 2009. You can see the elongated tepals of M. sargentiana but overall the flower is darker in colour than…

…things.Two 30-year-old plants of what I think are very probably Rhododendron monstroseanum. One is much darker than the other but, as you can see, the flowers fade. Rhododendron monstroseanum Rhododendron…

…Blechnum cycadifolium Blechnum cycadifolium Blechnum cycadifolium Blechnum fluviatile Blechnum fluviatile Blechnum fluviatile Myrsine salicina (now renamed Rapanea salicifolia) was another novelty with dark red pendulous tubular flowers on Treseders Nursery…

…Ruby’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ Prunus ‘Collingwood Ingram’ as good as ever. Such a dark reddish-pink colour and not dissimilar…

…established now in the centre of the Old Park. 2019 planted. Magnolia ‘Black Swan’ Magnolia ‘Black Swan’ Magnolia ‘Black Swan’ Magnolia ‘Theodora’ is Maurice Foster’s UK bred M. ‘Dark Shadow’…

…well and excellent. Magnolia dawsoniana ‘Valley Splendour’ Prunus ‘Collingwood Ingram’ is nearly as good a dark colour as ‘Felix Jury’. Prunus ‘Collingwood Ingram’ Prunus ‘Collingwood Ingram’ Prunus ‘Collingwood Ingram’ Magnolia…

…its splendid best The group in front of it. The group in front of it Magnolia ‘Eileen Bailes’. Magnolia ‘Eileen Bailes’ A good dark red form of the Rhododendron spinuliferum….

…good. Magnolia campbellii ‘Charles Raffill’ The revamped conservatory which is now water proof. revamped conservatory A very dark form with more than a hint of pink on the Tregullow Rhododendron…

…utilis ‘Chris Lane’: Black – big white calcocils Betula utilis dark form: Black – small white calcocils Betula utilis ‘Melony Sanders’: Very red peeling stem Camellia bailinshanica: Red new growth…

…this year and not as dark a colour as usual. Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Rhododendron campylogynum in the Rockery is two thirds dead from the drought and the other third…

…to my mind, makes this chance seedling interesting and worthy of registration as being unique and different is the strange and irregular dark pink blotches and mottling on the very…

…campbellii ‘Valentine’s Torch’ Below is a full list of the plants delivered via Burncoose earlier this week. Boring perhaps but this diary is a useful record. Magnoliastore Coates Darkest Purple…

…in profusion. Podocarpus henkelii Podocarpus henkelii Rehderodendron kwangtungense appears to be fully evergreen here. Rehderodendron kwangtungense Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’ from afar with a dark background. Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’…

…dark coloured Rhododendron mucronulatum by the till. Rhododendron mucronulatum Very early for buds to be showing up on Crinodendron hookerianum at The Copper House. Crinodendron hookerianum One bit of a…

…‘Conroy’ is orange. It is a Millais hybrid which came in 2009. Rhododendron ‘Conroy’ Rhododendron ‘Conroy’ Rhododendron ‘Rabatz’ (also from Millais) is not doing that well but a dark red….

…Darker in colour than the one I photograph at Ventnor. Catalpa fargesii f. duclouxii Catalpa fargesii f. duclouxii A young Magnolia dealbata with its first flowers (the mature plant has…