26th December

…impressive pink flowering form which would probably have been out several weeks before. Prunus autumnalis Prunus autumnalis Prunus autumnalis We have looked at this Eupatorium ligustrinum plant on Bond Street…

5th August

…bungei Clerodendron bungei Eucomis autumnalis with white flowers. Not autumn either! Eucomis autumnalis Eucomis autumnalis Seed on Pittosporum crassifolium – not seen before. Pittosporum crassifolium Sophora microphylla. 12-15ft tall here….

13th April

…2018 – CHW At the nursery for various meetings on an overcast day.The new Distyllum racemosum ‘Blue Cascade’ has attractive new growth now. Distyllum racemosum ‘Blue Cascade’ Prunus autumnalis ‘Rosea’…

15th November

‘Autumnalis’ has some white flower although still with leaf. I have never noticed this tree in flower before and it is not that dramatic but, for November, who cares! Prunus…

2nd February 1897 – 2020

…of the ground. Spanish bluebells First flower on Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ by the Four-in-Hand. Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ Just the odd flower hidden away in Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’. Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’…

10th November

…has held back the camellias and though the November Pink showed colour in early October – no flower has yet matured. 1933 – JCW Prunus autumnalis is open in Rogers…

5th December

…1st flower – Taliensis no award. It is one of the most distinctive plants here and hardly anything better quality. 1933 – JCW Some flowers on Prunus autumnalis, on caucasicum…