31st January

…‘Lamellyn’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Lamellyn’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Lamellyn’ Camellia ‘Grace Bunton’ has a variable semi double flower with pink buds and attractive pink edging to the petals. There are two plants…

26th September

…the last of the red hot pokers to flower. Kniphofia rooperi Lobelia ‘Compton Pink’ was still looking splendid in the cash point. Lobelia ‘Compton Pink’ Lobelia ‘Compton Pink’ Colutea arborescens…

12th February

…‘Winter Snow’ Erica carnea ‘Pink Spangles’ Erica carnea ‘Pink Spangles’ Erica carnea ‘Pink Spangles’ Erica carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Eva…

9th February

…Helleborus Frostkiss ‘Dorothys Dawn’ Helleborus Frostkiss ‘Dorothys Dawn’ Helleborus Frostkiss ‘Dorothys Dawn’ Helleborus ‘Pink Beauty’ – flowers have pink coverings or bracts but open a creamy white. Helleborus ‘Pink Beauty’…

8th February

…one seen earlier this week on the drive. pink form ‘Bo-Peep’ pink form ‘Bo-Peep’ pink form ‘Bo-Peep’ 2017 – CHW Prunus incisa just below the Hovel is just showing its…

4th February

…(three plants) nearby of the pink form of Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’. Is the pink better than the yellow form? Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’ Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’ Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’ Pseudocydonia sinensis with, as usual, early…

2nd November

…to cut out the damaged leader to prevent the infection travelling downwards. Magnolia ‘Coral Pink’ Magnolia ‘Coral Pink’ First flower on Camellia sasanqua ‘Gay Border’. Camellia sasanqua ‘Gay Border’ Some…

25th March

…the copious flowers. Pink buds opening as double flowers with pinkish edges then fading to white. None of the other Matsumaes have any flowers out just yet so this is…

29th September

…today as Cotoneaster salicifolius ‘Pink Champagne’ but we were given it by John Bond at Windsor under the first name. Cotoneaster x watereri ‘Pink Champagne’ Cotoneaster x watereri ‘Pink Champagne’…

17th March

…Gem’ Camellia ‘Winter Gem’ 2023 – CHW Jim Gardiner with Magnolia sprengeri ‘Dusky Pink’ which he gave us a few years ago. Today in full flower with a beaming Jim!…