24th June

…is the very late flowering Azalea ‘Jane Fire’. Azalea ‘Jane Fire’ Stachyurus praecox ‘Devon Purple’ getting established. Stachyurus praecox ‘Devon Purple’ Lomatia tinctoria now full out. Lomatia tinctoria Lomatia tinctoria…

4th July

…tree is 20ft plus tall and every twig has a cluster of lobster claw flowers. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Ligustrum confusum is a record tree. Rather…

2nd July

…it is one of the things which we know will be out and sell well at Hampton Court. The best thing in the garden today. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia

29th July

…flowers on Lomatia ferruginea which I have missed completely this year. Lomatia ferruginea Another veteran bites the dust and now needs digging out. Our oldest Rehderodendron macrocarpum. Lots of youngsters…

4th February

…Admiral’ Lower branch pruning on Lomatia ferruginea to prevent overshadowing of nearby young rhododendrons. Nice bark on its trunk. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea First flowers on the pinker form of…

10th June

…on Magnolia ‘Charles Coates’. Magnolia ‘Charles Coates’ Lomatia tinctoria just coming out. Lomatia tinctoria Lomatia tinctoria 2024 – CHW A young heifer decides to try to walk to the beach….

28th August

…a few new seed heads on Lomatia ferruginea but most seeds have failed to form this year and the plant looks sickly to say the least. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea…

11th November

Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Autumnal views over Hovel Cart Road towards Old Park. Autumnal views Autumnal views Styrax formosanus var formosanus is as laden with seeds as it was with…

5th January 1897- 2020

…usually out for Hampton Court flower show so well worth propagating for sale there. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Rhododendron hookeri with the ‘barbs’ on the petioles clearly showing beside the…

2nd September

…flower. Hydrangea aspera Vigorous reshooting from the fallen and pollarded Magnolia ‘Cecil Nice’. Magnolia ‘Cecil Nice’ Seedpods forming on Lomatia ferruginea in profusion. Lomatia ferruginea Very few seed heads have…

RHS Savill Garden Pictures 2018

…wisteria wisteria wisteria Lomatia hirsuta from Chile and Argentina had survived the cold against a wall facing west Lomatia hirsuta Rhododendron ‘Psyche’ Rhododendron ‘Psyche’ Rhododendron ‘Psyche’ Camellia ‘E T R…

25th December

…and behaving like an evergreen which it is not! Alniphyllum eberhartii Alniphyllum eberhartii Lomatia ferruginea has many pea-like seedpods but these are still green and unripe. Lomatia ferruginea Acer laevigatum…

21st November

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Another dead Snakebark maple near George’s Hut. dead Snakebark maple Lomatia tinctoria was…

10th August

…different in colour to the spring unlike many secondary efforts. Magnolia ‘Apollo’ Drooping seed clusters forming on Lomatia ferruginea. Lomatia ferruginea 2019 – CHW Tilia kiusiana now just out in…

3rd September

…not fazed by the rain. Copious fruit on Cornus kousa ‘Gold Star’. Very good indeed. Cornus kousa ‘Gold Star’ Lomatia ferruginea is just going over. Lomatia ferruginea Gevuina avellana, the…

11th July

…veitchiorum is dead. It flowered profusely last year and was obviously then on the way out. Meliosma veitchiorum Lomatia ferruginea flowering away reasonably and a little later than usual. This…

25th August

…on Ligustrum confusum. Ligustrum confusum Seed aplenty forming on Lomatia ferruginea. Lomatia ferruginea Seed heads forming on Photinia prionophylla. Photinia prionophylla Although I suspect they will not develop properly acorn…

1st August

…month. Magnolia ‘Kew’s Surprise’ Lomatia fraseri in flower in the frames. Lomatia fraseri Brassaiopsis dumicola (KWJ 12217) with a flower cluster. We lost this in the garden last winter. Brassaiopsis…

31st July

…through the adjacent camellias where they now flower away nicely standing proud to the camellias. Berberidopsis corallina Lomatia fraseri with its first flowering in the garden here. We now have…

23rd July

…but never seen (by me) in flower before. Aralia cashmeriana Lysimachia pendrifolius (spelling may be wrong) – most peculiar! Lysimachia pendrifolius Lomatia fraseri in full flower 15ft up. Lomatia fraseri…