23rd May

…choose for everyone? Was the president’s choice the same as the public’s vote? Did Monty and the BBC producers actually muddle the two choices? Certainly it was all very unclear…

20th October

…‘guns choice’. This turned out to be the winner of the trial as well. Simon Trudgeon Competitors and their awards at the end of the day. Competitors We have been…

1st March

…‘Sidbury’ but that is a personal choice. Magnolia campbellii ‘Lamellyn’ Fallen flowers on the drive under a row of Camellia saluenensis at the top of the drive. Fallen flowers Two…

19th April

…of 12-15ft in height. So peculiar that this makes it a choice plant for any serious collector of New Zealand species. We need to propagate this species a lot more….

9th December

…x williamsii ‘J C Williams’ Blue tits faced with rather too much choice here to do any real damage to quite so many blooms all out at once. 1968 –…

11th December

…in in the spring. Over the last year we have been assembling here from gifts, purchases and our own propagation a number of very rare and choice plants to enhance…

23rd June

…to? He claims in a poll of 100,000 5:2 for leaving. We will see and live in hope. A dirty campaign by both sides but the choice was simple and…

8th April

…Caerhays. Malus hupehensis Malus hupehensis Cornus nuttallii ‘Pink Blush’ with little pink but a choice plant which we ought to stock. Cornus nuttallii ‘Pink Blush’ Cornus nuttallii ‘Pink Blush’ Acer…

12th November

…be removed when dry in the spring ready for a large new planting of more choice plants. The laurel is no longer needed here as a shelter belt but it…

19th February

…personal choice are unknown. I blame the insidious health and safety culture which arrived from America (and then got reinforced by the EU) whereby every accident has to be blamed…