…have attacked the flower for the nectar when you look closely. Camellia x williamsii ‘St Ewe’ Camellia x williamsii ‘St Ewe’ Corylopsis sinensis ‘Spring Purple’ starting a good show with…

…– 2nd with R. praestans and a 4th with macabeanum. Class 13 – 1st picturered below, 2nd M. ‘Purple Sensation, and 3rd M. sprengeri ‘Diva’ Class 25 – 2nd with…

…Peter Smithers’ – a darker form from Wisley Daphne bholua ‘Sir Peter Smithers’ Daphne bholua ‘Sir Peter Smithers’ A Dichroa cynea with fruits. Exotic and unseen by us before. Purple…

…paniculata ‘White Lace’ Young Acer campestre showing autumnal yellow. Acer campestre Hydrangea ‘Fireworks Blue’ turning to reddish purple. Hydrangea ‘Fireworks Blue’ First yellowing on Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Aureomarginata’. Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Aureomarginata’…

…is purple in bud, opening purple-lavender and then fading (as here) to pale lilac-pink. A double flower. Sadly the plant is nearly dead below the tower. Planted about 1991. Syringa…

…‘Fukuja’ Magnolia ‘Pink Charm’ Magnolia ‘Purple Eye’ Magnolia ‘Purple Star’ Magnolia ‘Sentinel’ Magnolia ‘Sybille’ magnolias from Magnoliastore This pyrus originated from Werrington. Its flowers have a vile smell which it…

…the purple undersides to its leaves which are also quite outstanding. Disanthus cercidifolius is a plant noted for its autumn colours which we have failed to grow despite three attempts….

…new planting where the soil was exposed after our tree felling. As we saw they are predominantly purple and smaller flowered on Sinogrande Walk. violets Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ x…

…exactly that. Another nail in the BBC coffin given time one hopes.I was being thick about my earlier comments on the purple cut leaf beech which I described as a…

…flowering a month early. Embothriums Looking at Melicytus obovatus again with its tiny (but voluminous) quantities of flowers I notice that while the vast majority of the flowers are purple…