8th October

…Yucca filamentosa ‘Ivory Towers’ Yucca filamentosa ‘Ivory Towers’ As is Yucca flaccida ‘Color Guard’. Yucca flaccida ‘Color Guard’ Yucca flaccida ‘Color Guard’ Not so sure Phormium tenax ‘Lemon Spritzer’ is…

21st August

…remembered only in old postcards (together with the jetty to receive the coal) from pre WW1. I guess the Home Guard demolished the boathouse in WW2 when the pill boxes…

21st March

…sycamore This is how an ants’ nest created in the spiral tree guard has killed this grafted magnolia. Soil taken up the spiral by the ants to about 18’’ and…

29th February

…but a bit of work to get the old spiral guard off which was distorting the growth of the trunk and would have quickly killed the plant. Magnolia x veitchii…

27th January

…a minority opinion set against that of their older, loyal members who dislike any ‘change’ on principle? The old guard of lifetime Chelsea exhibitors will have a view but the…

19th August

…in the last week due to grid failure. helicopter helicopter Ants building a nest up around the trunk of a young Meliosma veitchiorum before the spiral tree guard was removed….