Here is the Korean spruce Picea abies ‘Acrocona’ with a large number of fresh pink cones as well as last season’s brown ones.

This is the Chinese spruce, Picea likiangensis, also with a profusion of pink cones.

The dogwoods are almost ready to come out, a couple more warm days and they will be looking great. This is Cornus kousa ‘Venus’.

The pocket handkerchief tree Davidia involcutra has lots of tissues hanging out on its branches!

Cornus rutgersensis ‘Aurora’ the flowering dogwood is looking good with creamy white bracts.

An indication of how late the season is this year, due to the cold April, can be seen in Crataegus monogyna, the Hawthorn or Mayflower, traditionally out by Mayday the first of May and still not out yet on the 12th May.

The Golden Hornet Crab apple, Malus ‘Golden Hornet’ always produces a prodigious number of fruit, and this season looks like no exception.

And finally the aptly named maple Acer pseudoplatanus ‘Brilliantissimum’ looks great against the soon-to-be-felled Cypress leylandii.