12th November

…seed heads on Liquidambar formosana Monticola Group. The leaves drop before there is much of a show of colour. Liquidambar formosana Monticola Group Liquidambar formosana Monticola Group Liquidambar formosana Monticola…

23rd November

…Quercus rugosa is getting away well and now around 7ft tall. Quercus rugosa Quercus rugosa Nice colours on the yellow leaved Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Liquidambar

22nd October

…‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Deutzia calycosa ‘Dali’ with late flowers. This selection was named by Roy Lancaster following a 1981…

11th November

…‘Red Star’ has nearly dropped. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ is just turning. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ 2024 – CHW The hedge of Camellia x williamsii…

15th November

…autumn colours. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Idesia polycarpa still with clusters of berries intact in the wind. Idesia polycarpa Acer takesimense with its last few leaves….

3rd December

…is said to turn orange-red and purple in an open position. All we see here are nice yellow tints. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Gum Ball’ This is Liquidambar styracifolia ‘Oconee’, which has…

29th July

…capsules in varying stages of development. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ First flowers high up on Eucryphia ‘Nymansay’ before the 1st August. They…

1st September

…four different named forms of liquidambar which we grow this one has the best shape particularly for smaller gardens. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconea’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconea’ The dreaded climbing Toxiodendron (which…

6th September

…‘Red Star’. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ An unusual combination – Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ and Asimina triloba. No fruit on the Asimina. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ and Asimina triloba 2022…

12th October

…was cut back when a tree fell on it now performing splendidly. hydrangea ‘Joseph Banks’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Lynn’ still has no autumn colour. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Lynn’ Euonymus huangi with its…

29th December

…Still good colours today on Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ below Sinogrande Walk. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Even better on Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Gum Ball’ above the same path. Both very rounded small trees…

5th February

…just out. Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ Small Liquidambar styraciflua with just a few purple-red leaves remaining at the top of the plants. Liquidambar styraciflua Liquidambar styraciflua Galanthus elwesii – nice potfulls….

6th May

…planted here was a gift from Lord Falmouth which got stolen. Liquidambar styraciflua Liquidambar styraciflua One of the wonders of lockdown is finding a new plant which you had no…

19th July

…me and very well worth growing! Good purplish secondary new growth on Liquidambar calycina. This plant is seriously taking off in its third year from planting out. Liquidambar calycina Liquidambar

2nd August

…new growth. Liquidambar acalycina Liquidambar acalycina Aesculus wangii with some too after the rain stunted its earlier growth shoots. Aesculus wangii Sorbus commixta aff. var. sachalinensis with nearly ripe fruits…

17th August

…forms of Liquidambar growing in Kennel Close. Liquidambar acalycina Cyclocarya paliurus was thought to be a species of Pterocarya but it has round fruits and other different characteristics. I saw…

11th September

…the way after some watering in the last two droughts. Liquidambar orientalis Liquidambar orientalis Quercus trojana was a gift from the IDS after a 2019 visit. It too has now…

9th August

…Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ Male and female catkin flowers on Platycarya strobilacea. Platycarya strobilacea Platycarya strobilacea Fruits forming on Liquidambar formosana. Liquidambar formosana Liquidambar formosana Fresh evidence of rabbits returning to…

28th December

…formosana ‘Formosan Gold’ in the frames suggesting good things for the future when planted out. Liquidambar formosana ‘Formosan Gold’ Liquidambar formosana ‘Formosan Gold’ A good young plant to replace the…

16th January

…and still have good colour. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ 2021 – CHW Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ now coming out properly on Burns Bank. Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ More buds opening…