…Gate to welcome visitors. Deciduous azaleas Rhododendron stamineum, the butterfly rhododendron, in the Main Quarry. I fear this group are overflowering and at the end of their lives but we…

…– CHW Despite some welcome light rain the woodland garden flowering of rhododendrons, camellias and (most) magnolias is now fast approaching the end of the season. Everything has been two…

…a welcome gift from Fromefield. Not fully ripe and coloured yet. Cotoneaster ‘Saint Andrews Blaze’ Cotoneaster ‘Saint Andrews Blaze’ Cotoneaster teijiashanensis with not many berries as yet. Cotoneaster tengyuehensis Cotoneaster…

…catkins but nothing like as good as ‘Mount Aso’. Salix hookeriana Salix hookeriana 2022 – CHW A welcome bit of rain overnight.Magnolia Pickard’s Hybrid ‘PP7’ flowering here. The plant is…

…photographed eight missing picture plants for the Burncoose website and many others which will be better than those we have already. 180 pictures of 38 different plants. Welcome relief after…

…here. An azalea gall 2022 – CHW Four hours of welcome heavy rain overnight and more to come to dampen the Jubilee festivities. rain Another decent plant of Pterostyrax psilophyllus…

…number of old Camellia japonicas in the Rookery to make a good new planting place up from the now flowering well Melliodendron. pleasantly warm and wet week pleasantly warm and…

…CHW Nursery day today – warm but welcome rain overnight. A huge clump of Lupinus ‘Manhattan Lights’. Lupinus ‘Manhattan Lights’ Rosa ‘Kent’ a new one for the nursery. Rosa ‘Kent’…

…books describe this as an annual but it clearly is not in a warm seaside location. A vigorous climbing or scrambling plant which flowers away for months and months. It…

…have a plant but New Trees records it as ‘fizzling out’ in a warm but dry location. Camptotheca acuminata Camptotheca acuminata Camptotheca acuminata A couple of Nyssa trees not performing…