1st April

…get everything cut in the day. Michelia maudiae with a gorgeous scent and silvery undersides to its leaves. Michelia maudiae with a gorgeous scent Michelia maudiae with a gorgeous scent…

2nd June

…on Juglans ailanthifolia and seed pods are forming quickly. Juglans ailanthifolia The undersides of the new leaves on Salix moupinense are silvery. Salix moupinense Salix moupinense Rhododendron catawbiense (or very…

1st May

…new species which will be in the 2021 Burncoose catalogue. Just buds for now but interesting leaves with an odd silvery hue. Crataegus schraderiana Deutzia x rosea ‘Yuki Cherry Blossom’…

12th June

…in flower. It is in fact the reddish new growth fronting the older silvery foliage as you can see close up. Very attractive in its own way. Eucalyptus crenulata Eucalyptus…

30th July

…resilient plant normally. Cotoneaster horizontalis Mahonia aquifolium with an enormous crop of blue-black seeds with a silvery sheen. Again the plant is demonstrating its desire to survive the drought by…

19th January

…Chamaerops humilis ‘Volcano’. I will need to investigate the invoice from 2015 from The Palm Centre. The leaves do have a silvery blue indumentum on the undersides. Clearly this plant…

13th September

…Chinese plum yew, planted in 2009 is now above deer height and looking good. Nice silvery undersides to its leaves and a spreading habit. Cephalotaxus fortunei Cephalotaxus fortunei Rhus chinensis,…

17th June

…now drooping). Silvery undersides to the leaves too as you can see. Manglietia insignis Manglietia insignis Manglietia insignis Manglietia insignis More pictures of Styrax formosanus full out. Styrax formosanus Styrax…

4th September

…since planted two years ago. Crataegus schraderiana ‘Fire Ball’ Crataegus schraderiana ‘Fire Ball’ Crataegus schraderiana ‘Fire Ball’ Sorbus japonica with fruits forming amid the silvery leaves. Odd colour to the…

7th November

…2018 – CHW Picea brachystyla has bold silvery undersides to its needles. I had not picked up on this before. Compact habit. One of the conifers from our ‘endangered in…