…shrub! Maclura pomifera Maclura pomifera Desmodium elegans flowering away on a hot bank. Desmodium elegans Desmodium elegans The second brood of wagtails in the yard have now fledged. wagtails Photinia…

…Maclura pomifera Maclura pomifera Arbutus x alapensis – champion tree of the ‘Texas madrone’. Superb bark just starting to split lower down near ground level. Visitors have carved graffiti into…

…by the old dog kennels. Maclura tricuspidata (BSWJ 12755) Maclura tricuspidata (BSWJ 12755) The felled oak tree only narrowly missed Magnolia ‘Leonora’. The felled oak tree The flowers finish and…

…discolor in full flower as usual. Asterotrichon discolor Maclura pomifera with attractive autumn colour. Maclura pomifera Stewartia pseudocamellia doing its usual good stuff. Stewartia pseudocamellia Quercus imbricaria even better than…

…13401) Clethra peleoletii (FMWJ 13401) Ilex x meserveae ‘Casanova’. Ilex x meserveae ‘Casanova’ 2024 – CHW Cudrania tricuspidata, now properly Maclura tricuspidata, the Chinese silkworm thorn, with its yellow fruits….

…(now Maclura tricuspidata) – the Chinese silkworm thorn. I had forgotten that we had planted this prickly horror but it is doing well. Extremely rare. Cudrania tricuspidata Cudrania tricuspidata Fruits…

…similar fruits is Maclura tricuspidate. Debregesasia edulis ‘Elite’ Hibiscus ‘Hamabo’ looking good in the cash point. Hibiscus ‘Hamabo’ Hibiscus ‘Hamabo’ Two thirty plus year old magnolias, one cherry and one…

…on the prickly Cudranea tricuspidata (Maclura tricuspidata), the Chinese silk thorn. Cudranea tricuspidata Cudranea tricuspidata The fruits on Malus rockii are still not really red as the yellow tints appear….

…Despite deer nibbling the windblown Acer morifolium is making a comeback. Removal of the laurel hedge has exposed Cudrania tricuspidata to the day light. (Now Maclura tricuspidata). Not too many…