…and sold it as Q. myrsinifolia. Alan says it is Quercus glauca and, I agree, that it looks NOW very like the Q. glauca which I photographed at Batsford Arboretum…

…Drinks with Charles Drinks at the Burncoose Stand Drinks at the Burncoose Stand Drinks Chelsea drinks Chelsea drinks Chelsea interview Alan Titchmarsh visited The Great Gardens stand at Chelsea to…

…flowering of Rhododendron tanastylum (an Alan Clarke collection). Another one on the ‘rarely in cultivation or of doubtful provenance’ list. I doubt Alan would agree! The first grass cut in…

…Magnolia (Michelia) ‘Fairy Lime’. Magnolia (Michelia) ‘Fairy Lime’ Another of Alan Clarke’s introductions – a Rhododendron maddenia subsection [?] just starting (CW & J 6342). Rhododendron maddenia Rhododendron maddenia Rhododendron…

…collage of autumn colour pictures on sunny days (not today!). Here is a selection of what has now largely blown away for another year.Alan Clark delivers the following rhododendrons from…

…a look at some leaves and bark on evergreen oaks above Crinodendron Hedge.This is one of Lady Anne Palmer or Alan Coombes’ Mexian evergreen oaks; or so I thought! Planted…

…Nigel Holman wild collected L. edulis | A sucker from the original tree survives – identity has been queried L. corneus | Alan Coombes. Identity needs checking – see New…

…place for rhododendrons and certainly not Alan Clark’s Vietnamese introductions. clearing of a laurel clump 2000 – FJW Corn being ploughed back in at Treluckey – large fields of maize…

…Symplocos dryophila Then a few more rhododendron species suddenly out. Rhododendron heliolepis (C&N 5758) – doubtful if this is correctly named although it was an Alan Clark wild collection. I…

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