…or two as well: Clematis alpina ‘Broughton Bride’ Clematis alpina ‘Broughton Bride’ Polemonium ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Polemonium ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Pittosporum undulatum Pittosporum undulatum Isopogon formosanus Isopogon formosanus Photinia ‘Louise’…

…is growing in a tight spot so it is hard to get a decent picture as it has grown too tall. Rather similar to Magnolia ‘Heaven Scent’ I think. Magnolia…

…heaven’s sake and when was a leaf scar alone the key to a plant identification? Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Michelia doltsopa Manglietia…

…is a hospital nurse. Heaven alone knows how this may turn out.A very sad email from Merlin Hanbury-Tenison (attached) about his father’s struggle with the disease. It does not look…

…fear is a squirrel. The leaves are even larger than the ‘ordinary’ ailanthus. A ‘tree of heaven’ indeed! Ailanthus altissima var tanake Ailanthus altissima var tanake A dwarfish sorbus species…

…treated in the same way now.Greed and panic / self-interest is, I suppose, entirely predictable human nature, BUT, as I say again, for heaven’s sake stop and think and calm…

…they have filmed a burial at the church, turned the tearooms into a prison and done heaven knows what in the library and drawing room. I guess about 100 people…