25th April

…year we now have a pretty full set of all the deciduous species. ‌‌Rhododendron‌ ‌reticulatum‌ ‌‌Rhododendron‌ ‌reticulatum‌ Rhododendron kiusianum just coming out. Rhododendron kiusianum Rhododendron kiusianum I called this Azalea…

12th March

…joy of the end result. With our high rainfall growth rates the ‘end result’ can come pretty quickly. The first day for many months that I can spend most of…

24th May

…us as pretty fair.Meanwhile consternation on the hosta/railway stand with the boss saying to me ‘Yes, Charlie, I know about plants not railway carriages’. The plants are pretty crap though…

12th September

…hard to believe, but this figure emerged by mistake. A pretty major thing to make a mistake about, but that’s what happened. Such things occur. On September 23, 1998, NASA…

1st August

…I am now pretty certain based on the 5 leaflets on each leaf and the fruits forming here. I looked at Carya at Ventnor and Osborne House. Carya ovata Carya…

17th April

…individual staff members which we can do online from next Monday using the PAYE/employee database. It is going to be pretty complicated. The government will then pay the 80% of…

16th May

…are a few paragraphs from his recent article in The Telegraph which sit pretty comfortably with those of us trying to understand the COVID disaster within the “saintliness” of Florence…

5th July

…– pretty horrid name – judge it for yourself! Kniphofia ‘Rufa Rasta’ Kniphofia ‘Rufa Rasta’ Ajuga reptans ‘Black Scallop’ without its pretty contrasting blue flowers. Ajuga reptans ‘Black Scallop’ Ajuga…

23rd May

…the press start bullying him to find out whether his garden centre chain is going to buy out Dobbies. He sort of refuses to answer but it is pretty clear…

28th March

…Jaimie obtained from a nursing friend does all these things. Some of it is pretty obvious but much of it was new to me and very relevant to all of…