…flower. Helleborus ‘Sally’s Shell’ has a delicate pink frill to the edge of the flower which fades a bit as you can see. Helleborus ‘Sally’s Shell’ Helleborus ‘Sally’s Shell’ Helleborus…

…10-20ft and varying in colour (like here) from white, to shell pink and crimson. Camellia forrestii Camellia forrestii A new plant of Tilia endochrysea is coming into leaf in the…

…the Ante Room. Unusually this hen pheasant is actually trying to incubate them and a big snail’s shell as you can see if you look closely. Pheasant’s nest Off to…

…Shan Jiangxi Magnolia sprengeri (shell pink) TH2823 from Leigon Shan, Guizhan Rhododendron yuetengense TH2785 from Maoer Shan Styrax limprichtii 2+F Coll Erhalpk Dalai Yunnan Pterostyrax psilophyllus var leveillei Camellia yunnanesis…

…in this diary earlier in April and May I am startled at how shell shocked we were as a country by lockdown in late March and how little thought was…

…remains of its shell can still just be seen today at low water from the cliffs above. Much of the metal infrastructure from the vessel was eventually salvaged by winch…

…chicks and find a couple of pheasants’ nests on the lawn – one without a mummy and a snail’s shell with the eggs. Isla concerned at this. ‘tractor’ Picnic on…

…flower on Doltsopa. 1958 – FJW Colour on Campbellii. 1934 – JCW Camellias are very nice in particular the shell pink crop. Most of the 1918 Rhodo’s are open. 1933…

…felled beech trees. The base of one of them was exactly here where an extraordinary fungus (only seen once before) is appearing. It starts as a series of brown shell…