…to collect from this one. Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum piperitum var. inerme is in Kennel Close with few seeds this year and a much younger tree. Zanthoxylum piperitum var….

…as do its branches. Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum simulans Zanthoxylum piperitum has many less spines on its trunk but nasty ones on its branches. The reddish fruits were ripening…

…before but never as copiously as this years effort. Still green today. Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Euonymus spraguei with its first flowers. Not enjoying the drought. Euonymus spraguei…

…ripe peppers and nasty prickles. Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum piperitum var. inerme with a few rather different peppers and attractive yellow autumn colours just starting. Zanthoxylum piperitum…

…Zanthoxylum simulans. Horrid prickles. zanthoxylum species zanthoxylum species zanthoxylum species Tilia henryana just coming out in Penvergate. Plastered in flower. However the plant on the drive has none this year….

…on its trunk. Quite different in leaf to the two Zanthoxylum species in Forty Acres which we looked at last week. Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Caesalpina japonica (now…

…(NJM 1108) has slightly fallen over perhaps due to the weight of its many peppers. The spines remain as spiteful as ever. Zanthoxylum armatum (NJM 1108) Zanthoxylum armatum (NJM 1108)…

…could wish for as well. Looks to be a large upright tree eventually which other species growing here are not. Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum 2021 –…

…– John Anderson a year ago. Ehretia macrophylla Ehretia macrophylla Zanthoxylum coreanum with buds coming and some good prickles! Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Catalpa sechuanensis also has purple new growth…

…first time while the leaves are still bright green. Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum A squirrel’s stash of half-eaten plump Camellia japonica seeds. Camellia japonica seeds The Acer palmatum…

…until they are old enough to fruit properly. Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Quercus rhysophylla ‘Maya’ fully evergreen and growing well. No sign of new growth yet and stem/trunk still green….

…red fruits (peppers). Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Still full green leaves on one of the original Magnolia x veitchii. Astonishing in December. Magnolia x veitchii The original Magnolia campbellii has…

…at least of this gardener’s horror. Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum A cluster of berries on Photinia niitakayamensis. We saw this once before when it was outside the greenhouse awaiting planting…

…good as Callicarpa ‘Profusion’. Callicarpa shirasawanum Callicarpa shirasawanum Zanthoxylum coriaceum laden with peppers. Best showing from this species so far. Zanthoxylum coriaceum 2021 – CHW An email from a diary…

…fruits seem well protected too. Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Wonderful autumn colour again this year on Lindera umbellata. </div Lindera umbellata Lindera umbellata Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ with its secondary autumn…

…its hard pruning and despite the drought which has brown tipped the new leaves. The dunging has clearly helped. Rhododendron stenaulum Rhododendron stenaulum Rhododendron stenaulum A young Zanthoxylum coreanum with…

…species planted here in 2014 in for too much shade have now died or been eaten. Zanthoxylum nepalense var. oxyphyllum Zanthoxylum nepalense var. oxyphyllum Quercas suber blown over yet again….

…All these zanthoxylum species are prickly ‘nasties’ but this one seems evergreen and especially so. Zanthoxylum acanthopodium Syringa pinnatifolia in flower which it certainly is not outside here as yet….

…after the 2 droughts. Rhododendron hunnewellianum Agathosma pulchella full of new growth and flowers. Agathosma pulchella Zanthoxylum piperitum with tiny yellowish flowers and dark coloured new growth. Zanthoxylum piperitum Stachyurus…

…is an excellent thing. Viburnum henryi Eleutherococcus giraldii (BWJ 8091) getting established. Odd leaves here too. Eleutherococcus giraldii (BWJ 8091) Zanthoxylum acanthopodium just getting established. Zanthoxylum acanthopodium 2023 – CHW…