11th October

…nocturnum Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’ covered in flower. Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’ Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’ with autumn colour and still a few late flowers. Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’ Anemone hupehensis ‘Whirlwind’….

20th February

…tree surgeon James has felled two rows of Thuja plicata originally planted by Arnold Dance near the drive after the 1978 whirlwind which blocked the drive for over a year….

10th May

…original old clump of Rhododendron griffithianum with its marvellous peeling bark was destroyed by a freak whirlwind in 1976 in the Auklandii Garden. So time to get going with some…

16th September

…The felled youngster perhaps 60-70? In my mind I thought I had planted the tree 10 or more years earlier after the whirlwind that destroyed all the Rhododendron aucklandii in…

26th December

…griffithianum). Wonderful peeling back too. There was a huge clump in the Auklandii Garden flattened in a whirlwind in 1976. Rhododendron auklandii 2016 – CHW An elderly survivor from JCW’s…