2nd July

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…

7th July

…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…

23rd October

…nicely. Cercis canadensis ‘Appalachian Red’ Asterotrichon discolor in full flower as usual. Asterotrichon discolor Maclura pomifera with attractive autumn colour. Maclura pomifera Stewartia pseudocamellia doing its usual good stuff. Stewartia…

31st July

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2025 – CHW (images to follow) 2024 – CHW Cudrania tricuspidata, now properly Maclura tricuspidata, the…

3rd August

…as Maclura tricuspidata. Schizophragma integrifolium var. fauriei at its finest. Not particularly tyring to climb here and more of a shrubby habit. Schizophragma integrifolium var. fauriei Schizophragma integrifolium var. fauriei…

5th August

…Magnolia dealbata. Magnolia dealbata Swelling female flowers and declining male associates on Platycarya strobilacea. Platycarya strobilacea Cudrania tricuspidata (now Maclura tricuspidata) – the Chinese silkworm thorn. I had forgotten that…

13th November

…had not seen autumn colour before on the prickly Cudranea tricuspidata (Maclura tricuspidata), the Chinese silk thorn. Cudranea tricuspidata Cudranea tricuspidata The fruits on Malus rockii are still not really…