…a reddish sheath. Puya dyckiodes Puya dyckiodes Puya dyckiodes Puya chilensis and Puya berteronica self-crossed I think but splendid. Puya chilensis and Puya berteronica self-crossed Puya chilensis and Puya berteronica…

…Puya berteroniana Puya chilensis and Puya berteroniana Puya chilensis and Puya berteroniana Podanthus ovalifolius not quite out. Podanthus ovalifolius Schinus lentiscifolius is another rare but dull species of Schinus to…

…Puya mirabilis. Puya mirabilis Puya mirabilis Huge flowers on the very dwarf growing Hypericum olympicum ‘Citrinum’. Hypericum olympicum ‘Citrinum’ The ‘bamboo fern’, Coniogramme japonica ‘Flavomaculata’, are still tiny liners, but…

…last year have germinated well. Puya chilensis Puya chilensis Puya chilensis Colletia hystrix growing as large as I have ever seen it. Colletia hystrix Colletia hystrix Peumus boldus as a…

…leucoxylon rosea Puya dyckioides Puya dyckioides Puya dyckioides Callistemon ‘Mauve Mist’ Callistemon ‘Mauve Mist’ Callistemon ‘Mauve Mist’ Strelitzia reginae in flower outside on a dry bank Strelitzia reginae 2018 –…

…easily! Agave americana More dead and finished flower spikes on Puya berteronica. Puya berteronica Puya berteronica Freylinia lanceolata in full growth. Too early in the year for its tubular flowers….

…a year. Puya venusta Puya venusta Autumn colour on Stachyurus praecox better than I have ever seen it. Stachyurus praecox Stachyurus praecox Exceptional too on Parrotia persica ‘Vanessa’. Parrotia persica…

…A multitude of young rhododendron seedlings all now pricked out and ready to pot on next spring. rhododendron seedlings The puya are also showing well albeit slowly. puya Metapanax davidii…

…Hoya carnosa in the greenhouse. Hoya carnosa Our seed grown Puya have moved on from being tiny seedling plugs to decent plants in less than 12 months. Puya No flower…

…pricked out Puya seedlings. We have never managed results like this before. Puya seedlings Azalea and rhododendron liners in profusion – just potted. Azalea and rhododendron liners Azalea and rhododendron…

…of styrax species recently potted on from the main seed bench. styrax Tray upon tray of recently pricked out and potted on seedlings. seedlings seedlings Puya chilensis from seed. Puya…

…She must have walked down the river from beside the lake. young heifer Then to Trebah for a Great Gardens of Cornwall photocall. Three spikes of Puya chilensis but only…

…on the drive. Rhododendron oldhamii Rhododendron oldhamii Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Whitewater Silver’ in full flower in a nursery tunnel. Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Whitewater Silver’ A great crop of Puya chilensis grown originally…

…and/or the label is obviously on the wrong plant. Nearly all the mature agave (not to mention the Puya and Beschorneria clumps) have been flowering and then dying in recent…

…Puya and most of the Callistemon. Many of the Lampranthus colours, there were six or eight, have died out or gone. Three outstanding things did however catch the camera: Fucraea…

…one or two oaks look bad which I fear is the aftermath of two very dry summers even by Ventnor standards. Only 1 Puya flower stalk that I saw this…

…unlike Fatsia japonica. Fatsia polycarpa Fatsia polycarpa Dasilioron mequeriomexensis – looks like a puya. Dasilioron mequeriomexensis These would be available to us at trade prices. Coming on for the future…