3rd October

…‘Tiger Eyes’ Another new plant for the website – Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Summer Skies’. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Summer Skies’ The late flowering Kniphofia rooperi. Kniphofia rooperi Eleagnus x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’ with…

6th March

…Burncoose Nurseries from Italy. Only plants which cannot host Xyella of course so a much reduced consignment this year as in recent years. Italian wholesale nurseries must be suffering badly…

18th May

…to go down turf starts to go down Christine watering up before we all go out to dinner in an Italian number of World’s End. Christine Christine 2018 – CHW…

April 2018 Irish trip ( Day 2)

…bark. Agathis australis Agathis australis Agathis australis Agathis australis The first view of the Italian garden. Italian garden Various views to the towering mountains nearby which we cannot really see…

12th February

…let light into the passage and it seems to relish this. As formal a shape as an Italian topiary buxus or ligustrum. Few people still grow this tenderish plant which…

25th March

skies and a perfect day to admire the magnolias at their very best.Strangely the Quercus x hispanica ‘Lucombeana’ has no leaves at all despite the mildest of winters. This normally…

16th October

…grasses A very fine Alnus cordata, Italian alder. Alnus cordata Alnus cordata 2022 – CHW Seeds forming on Vaccinium dunalianum var. megaphyllum – a gift from Rod White. Vaccinum dunalianum…

23rd February

…otherwise. 1899 – JCW Nearly all the Maximus, H Irving and Tenby open, many Caerhays trumpets and one or two Cernuus, many R praecox, C indivisa open, some Italian trumpets….

18th February

…– Irroratum – Hookeri – Mariesii. Cerasus Conradinae and the Italian cherry very good. 1915 – JCW About 15 species of Rhodo’ show flower Barbatum and Argenteum are really the…

14th February

…Sutchuenense – Ciliatum – Thompsonii hybrids – Ririei and Nobleanum all oopening. Italian cherry and Wilson’s in bloom, also R hookeri. 1911 – JCW Wilsons first batch of Conifer seed…