31st December

Eve New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve New Year’s Eve 2020 – CHW Still cold and frosty but a fine day…

24th December

…grandchildren rather excited about Christmas. Three grandchildren 2023 – CHW Mild and wet.First flowers out on Camellia japonica ‘Nuccio’s Jewel’. Camellia japonica ‘Nuccio’s Jewel’ Even more Christmas week flowers than…

8th June

…is known as the Choke Cherry and comes from E. North America. I had never even heard of it previously and look forward to seeing it flower. Prunus virginiana ‘Schubert’…

27th April

…but boring job by the end of this week. Proofing involves checking every invoice for the last year to see that we do actually have (in theory) everything which we…

26th July

…bar tucked away in a corner. It all opens next weekend. You will need a raincoat if it’s a cold or wet evening. I have seen better set ups for…

25th July

…leaves was served in the evening sun. The latter quite revolting. 2017 – CHW More from Eddington’s Nursery.Thalictrum ‘Elin’ – may not have ever caught the flowers as well as…

27th December

…keysii Also still leaf and good late autumn colour on Cotoneaster glomerulatus. Some years, without frost, this is almost an evergreen species with us here. Cotoneaster glomerulatus Cotoneaster glomerulatus Suprsingly…

20th November

…are a few surviving shoots as here. No rush to dig these stumps out anyway. Rhododendron ‘Saffron Queen’ I am even more confident that Rhododendron ‘Nancoor’ will rehsoot. Young and…

16th August

…a customer who then said they were too expensive although they knew the price. As ever the nursery ends up carrying the can for being efficient. drought struck specimen box…

2nd November

…aspera ‘Robusta’ Hydrangea aspera ‘Robusta’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Variegata’ as good as I have ever seen it here. Camellia sasanqua ‘Variegata’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Variegata’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Variegata’ Rhododendron mucronulatum with swelling…

3rd August

…stock. Cordyline australis ‘Pink Passion’ Ilex aquifolium ‘Myrtifolia’ which would be a good hedging plant. Ilex aquifolium ‘Myrtifolia’ Forsythia ‘Fiesta’ – attractive leaf colouration even without the early season flowers….

31st July

…in tiny flowers. Colletia hystrix Oxydendron arboreum running up a terminal flower spike. Oxydendron arboreum Poliothrysis sinensis – I do not recollect ever seeing this before in flower in the…

24th May

…the scrapheap and the country driven even further into a recession as no one living has ever seen UNLESS (careful) common sense prevails at last.The recession will be government’s fault…

10th July

…the Magnolia delavayi on the house, the best Populus lasiocarpa I have ever seen. Outstanding in every respect and I look forward to returning at a different time of the…

9th July

…a farm tenant with only three or four fields could achieve. Weeds everywhere exactly as they used to be 50 years ago when many farmers used a small field to…

22nd May

…first journalist The Savills sponsored garden with subsequently received a Silver Gilt Medal. Savills invited 994 clients to the show over the 6 days. Ticket price c. £100 per ticket…

12th May

…red. evergreen azalea clump evergreen azalea clump As far as I can pin this old clump to a name it is Azalea ‘Pink Delight’. Azalea ‘Pink Delight’ Azalea ‘Pink Delight’…

6th May

…the garden but not perhaps the weather that King Charles III would have chosen for HIS big event! 10 signets have hatched off on the lake and the parents allowed…

20th April

…but we have to get the economy going! The government cannot bail out everyone and every business for very much longer.The death rates may turn out to be double the…

10th March

…‘Wakehurst’ The sister seedling to Magnolia ‘Leonora’ – even better than ‘Leonora’. sister seedling to Magnolia ‘Leonora’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’. Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ 2024 – CHW The…