4th November

…best in the sun. Absolutely splendid! Acer ‘Sango-Kaku’ Acer ‘Sango-Kaku’ Camellia ‘Nobilissima’ has two flowers out beside the front door. Much earlier than usual, I suspect, but need to check…

1st November

…palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku’ (‘Senkaki’). Quite a spectacle. Acer palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku Acer palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku Acer palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku Acer palmatum ‘Sango-Kaku More unusual fungi. No mushrooms on the lawn this year despite the…

8th April

…the sunrays. Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ A young Rhododendron singogrande with its first flower. The mature plants beside it have yet to show colour. Rhododendron singogrande…

3rd September

…busy. Magnolia salicifolia Magnolia salicifolia Another week on and more orange now on Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’. Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ The south facing Podocarpus salignus is quite a sight…

21st September

…beautiful autumnal yellow. Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’ already plastered with ripe ‘strawberry’ fruits. We must have got on top of…

24th October

…‘Spring Purple’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ (‘Senkaki’) in the evening sun. Some leaves falling. Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ A large oak branch has fallen on the Acer faberi and…

25th October

Kaku’ in the sun. Acer palmatum ‘Sango Kaku’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango Kaku’ Sorbus sargentiana performing well. Sorbus sargentiana Sorbus sargentiana Sorbus sargentiana 2023 – CHW Jaimie’s pictures of Camellia x…

7th November

…(‘Senkaki’) strutting its autumn colours in the sun. Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ Nyssa leptophylla has developed its autumn colours nicely over the last two to three weeks. Nyssa…

2nd July

…the rains came we finally have some reshooting. Neolitsea aff. polycarpa The elderly clump of Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ is already turning an autumnal orange after the heatwave. Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’…

27th July

‘Sango kaku’ has turned a deeper orange colour in only 10 days. Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ Fruit on Cornus alternifolia and a secondary flower on Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Evamaria’. Cornus…

20th September

…those at Caerhays. Here Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ by the mist houses. Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ Acer palmatumn ‘Senkaki’ (‘Sango-Kaku’) has autumn colour already above the mist houses. Acer palmatumn…

4th October

…this is now quite a tree with a dense branch structure. Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Inchmery’ Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Inchmery’ Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Inchmery’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ has turned even more orange/yellow now. Acer…

5th November

‘Sango-kaku’ now a true yellow and dropping. Acer palmatum ‘Sango-kaku’ 2019 – CHW One of our two Laburnocytisus adamii has blown out of the ground in last Friday night’s gale….

10th November

…the top lake. Betula pendula ‘Youngii’ Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ (‘Senkaki’) and Podocarpus totara. Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’ The quarry lake. quarry lake A clump of Phyllostachys nigra proving it…

26th November

…had obviously rotted at the base. Another historic plant has bitten the dust Acer palmatum ‘Senkaki’ (‘Sango-kaku’) has now shed its yellow leaves onto the ground. Still splendid in the…