Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood’

• Recommend the view to the Pentlands, with a dusting of snow and clear sky the hills stand out today

• Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood’, D44

• Mahonia polyodonta, SBEC collection, F10

• Pieris formosa, H09

• Corylopsis sinensis var. calvescens: a dusty scent evident around the plant, C06

The rhododendron season is starting:

• R. macbeanum: yellow blooms, N.E.India, F15

• R. ririei: an early Forrest collection, F15

• R. strigillosum x praevernum: in the Ponticum section, C06

• R. cinnamomeum var. roseum, F10

• R. lanigerum, F10

• R. floccigerum: from S.W. China, in the Copse, C21