12th May

…off the pile to be loaded. Salvia officinalis ‘Albiflora’ Corydalis ‘Berry Exciting’ is just producing its flowers and will be fine. Perfect even! What a colour contrast. Corydalis ‘Berry Exciting’…

22nd May

…exhibitors ‘tent’. Mrs Williams and Mrs Clarke Mary Berry and a BBC producer using our stand for filming. I have met Mary before and she is exceptionally pleasant. Mary Berry

2nd October

…already for next spring. Paulownia fortunei Paulownia fortunei Ilex aff. gagnepainiana (FMWJ 13468) has made huge growth. Ilex aff. gagnepainiana (FMWJ 13468) Plenty of berry on Sorbus hupehensis with, currently,…

3rd October

…Chilean plant also put out in 2019. It had flowered and berried as you can see but I have missed it – one berry only! Odd to find it sitting…

27th August

…the drought. Normally a good crop of eventually black seeds. Ligustrum confusum 2021 – CHW A nursery visit to check how the improvements were progressing there.Berry in full colour on…

14th February

…Stil plenty of berry on the hollies here in mid-February implying the mild winter which we have had with few migrating birds. plenty of berry on the hollies Magnolia campbellii…

21st July

…hydrangeas and Harrow Hybrid rhodos hydrangeas and Harrow Hybrid rhodos 2018 – CHW Rubus phoenicolasius with its edible orange raspberries (the wine berry) for the first time. The pheasant poults…

23rd January

…orientalis with pink tinged anthers showing from the flower heads and then white flowers. Sarcococca orientalis Sarcococca orientalis Sarcococca wallichii flowers are over but the odd black berry remains. Sarcococca…

17th September

…what was out in flower or in berry. After the grass cutting on the banks the autumn cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium) have suddenly appeared in profusion. Pink and white forms. A…

15th January

…the laurel here is going to be a priority. path clearing Jaimie has found a yew tree growing out of the fallen trunk of a tree fern. A yew berry