…Chicken of the woods Chicken of the woods Hedychium tengchongense ‘Trum Trom’ (WWJ 11964) is the first of the gingers to flower this year at last. Hedychium tengchongense ‘Trum Trom’…

…domestica ‘Firepower’ still with good red tints. Nandina domestica ‘Firepower’ Nandina domestica ‘Woods Dwarf’ not quite as good. Nandina domestica ‘Woods Dwarf’ Syzygium paniculatum ‘Newport’ with minor frost damage. Trim…

…woodland garden with a huge newly restored walled garden attracting 100,000 visitors a year. Lots of new planting and vigour from the Head Gardener, Claire Woods MBE. The Castle Gardens…

…in 1900 but I know of no existing mature plants in the UK. Meliosma oldhamii Meliosma oldhamii Heard the first cuckoo calling at 10am from Old Park or Brownberry Woods….

…were feeding so intensively that they never opened their wings to reveal which species they were. Speckled woods? Cirsium vulgare Cirsium vulgare Cirsium vulgare Magnolia tamaulipana was half out yesterday…

…uncinata Clematis uncinata 2022 – CHW Cotoneaster ‘Exburyensis’ covered in 40 to 50 butterflies. Mainly speckled woods I think. Cotoneaster ‘Exburyensis’ Cotoneaster ‘Exburyensis’ Rhododendron ‘Pink Polar Bear’ at its best….

…the Cornwall Red Squirrel Project and a visit to the two red squirrel enclosures hidden in the woods. Both contain breeding pairs and it is possible that one pair have…

…is at its best. 1914 – JCW A few snowdrops and Aconite, some good rhodo’s in flower in all three woods, mostly based in the blood red arboreum line of…

…Even more lovely is the delicate pink Watsonia ‘Tresco dwarf pink’. Not dwarf at all in habit but the flowers are perhaps small by watsonia standards. Both these two survived…

…plug liner? We used to stock this once and it sold well. What else is blue in flower in August? Commelia colestis Commelia colestis Sedum ‘Gold Mound’ may be dwarf…