6th August

…michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Hoheria angustifolia in full flower. Hoheria angustifolia Hoheria angustifolia Hoheria angustifolia Correa bachhousiana with its first two flowers out very…

2nd July

…fastuosum with its attractive seedheads. Echium fastuosum Pyrus x michauxii – hybrid pear and champion tree originating in the Levant as I have seen before with flower and fruit. Pyrus

22nd October

…remember or trace it in the reference books. I might get it from the Werrington Chinese Garden plant list. It may well be Pyrus pashia. pyrus pyrus 2015 – CHW…

9th July 1897 – 2020

…like a pear! Pyrus x michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Opuntia ficus-indica, the prickly pear cactus from Mexico, full out and no ill effects from the cold. Opuntia…

30th April

…growth which I had not seen before. Pyrus ‘Pashia’ Pyrus ‘Pashia’ Pterocarya tonkinensis just coming into leaf but already with attractive bark. Pterocarya tonkinensis Pterocarya tonkinensis Pterocarya tonkinensis The Taiwanese…

16th October

…‘Arendsii’ An exotic and tender Busy Lizzie – name unknown. Busy Lizzie Busy Lizzie Dendroseris litoralis. Dendroseris litoralis Fruits on Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’ which one seldom sees. Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’…

20th November

…yellow colour in the cash point today. Pyrus colleryana ‘Chanticleer’ Pyrus colleryana ‘Chanticleer’ Cotinus ‘Grace’ is equally good alongside it. Cotinus ‘Grace’ Deutzia crenata ‘Nikko’ with a lovely reddish-purple hue…

30th April 1897 – 2020

…stem. Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ Pyrus ‘Pashia’ with attractive new growth which I had not seen before. Pyrus ‘Pashia’ Pyrus ‘Pashia’ Pterocarya tonkinensis just coming into leaf but already with attractive…

12th March 1897 – 2020

Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticlear’ Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticlear’ Osmanthus burkwoodii – excellent in flower as a low clipped hedge. Osmanthus burkwoodii Osmanthus burkwoodii Osmanthus burkwoodii Osmanthus burkwoodii 2016 – CHW First day…

9th May

…Crataegus cuneata Magnolia ‘Illini Moonlight’. Magnolia ‘Illini Moonlight’ x Sorbopyrus auricularis (Pyrus communis x Sorbus aria). The Bollwyller Pear. Garden origin before 1619. AM 1982. I look forward to pears!…

15th June

…concinna Legrandia concinna A bed of Sweet William. Sweet William Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’ and Koelreuteria paniculata. Pyrus salicifolia ‘Pendula’ and Koelreuteria paniculata A Strelitzia reginae in flower in the greenhouse….

8th December

…flowering out of season. Schefflera pauciflora The magnolia tunnel in the sales area is well stocked up and tidied for the spring. magnolia tunnel Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’ still with bold…

26th April

…be Pyrus, or they may be Cydonia. No one is really sure of their origins. Chaenomeles are recorded as being on sale in a Bristol nursery in 1870 but were…

14th May

…bushii ‘Seattle Trident’ Sorbus alnifolia nicely covered in flower. Sorbus alnifolia Sorbus japonica just coming out. A real show to come. Sorbus japonica x Sorbopyrus auricularis (Pyrus communis x Sorbus…

29th December

Pyrus in the plan because of their close association to and similarities in flowering to Malus. This is clearly a huge subject and there are scores if not hundreds more…

10th January

…plants of 65 different Malus varieties and 3 forms of Pyrus as well.A long job to sort out what goes where according to the plan with the correct spacings for…

9th February 1897 – 2020

…The one Corylopsis not ?? marked The Pyrus flaggiana C. H. C’s Syringa The big Glauca Oak near Melinanthus The Ribes longisternosum 1902 – JCW Minimus going back, minor shows…

17th February 1897 – 2020

…var digyna Sarcocca hookeriana var digyna A big tidy up for opening. Half the pyrus tree was dead and has now gone. The hydrangeas have had a ‘proper’ prune as…

20th February 1897 – 2020

…arboreum – blood red arboreum – micranthum – dahuricum – racemosum – sutchuenense.1913 – JCW I found a small spray of Pyrus malus open. The Thomsonii x Arboreum lot are…

9th April 1897 – 2020

…frosted and maimed by the frost. The first de Graaf’s open in the Drive and a few cherries. 1914 – JCW The Auklandii x white Arboreum are now opening, Pyrus