28th February 1897 – 2020

…only now at its best. Erica arborea Erica arborea Erica arborea Erica arborea 2019 – CHW The glorious weather continues. We are a month earlier magnolia wise than I can…

13th March

…tricolor looking good with Erica arborea Unfrosted Echium pininana and Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood’ make an unusual combination in early March! Echium pininana and Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood’ Erica arborea

12th February 1897 – 2020

…half of them. That is our experience with many old clumps here. Prefers full sun on a hot dry bank with poorish soil. Erica arborea Erica arborea Erica arborea The…

19th March 1897 – 2020

…capensis Phylica arborea – island cape myrtle. Phylica arborea Phylica arborea Phylica arborea Tristanopsis lauriana – water gum, kanooka. Tristanopsis lauriana Tristanopsis lauriana These plants are mainly new and unknown…

17th November

…Erica arborea Erica arborea 2004 – FJW Drive camellias well out. 1940 – CW Still several fuchsias. Camellia oleifera with several flowers in the wood. Picked several nice flowers of…

19th November

…of new growth from the nearby wisteria. Erica arborea Erica arborea The new shop is getting there but by no means finished yet. new shop new shop new shop Sarcococca…

1st December

…ones at the Four in Hand have been out for a few weeks already. Erica arborea Erica arborea Nearby the men have downed another row of leylandii and bay trees…

4th December

…Erica arborea coming out above the castle. No scent today late afternoon. Erica arborea Erica arborea Worrying that this brick buttress on the top wall is breaking up largely caused…

27th December

…today. Erica arborea Erica arborea Ripe fruit at last on Rubus ichangensis below the greenhouse. Tasty although tiny with red calyxes. Rubus ichangensis Sarcococca ruscifolia with berry and flower together….

3rd January

…‘Delia Williams’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Delia Williams’ Erica arborea now perhaps the best thing in the garden today. Erica arborea Erica arborea Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ in the nursery is…

19th February 1897 – 2020

…untouched by the frost / cold wind earlier this week. Erica arborea Erica arborea The Magnolia mollicomata seedling through the arch has moved on a bit with the odd flower…

25th December

…unmoved. Erica arborea in flower.1900 – JCW Many Stylosa alba open. 80 lapageria on one plant. Coum one third open. Erica arborea in flower. Picked a good Mrs W.J Grant….

21st December

…– CHW The first primrose on the bank outside the front door. Not a record early appearance I suspect. first primrose on the bank Erica arborea now full out having…

26th November

…tonkinense. Polyspora axillaris var. tonkinense Polyspora axillaris var. tonkinense 2020 – CHW Erica arborea out in flower already but not every clump as yet. Erica arborea Prunus ‘Ichiyo’ (‘Pink Champagne’)…

28th August

…bank. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ We cut back a number of old Erica arborea above the 5 magnolias but the regrowth is coming from emerging seedlings and not the old wood….

7th March

…plants and 40 camellias sold in the last three weeks. sales point sales point Erica lusitanica and Rhododendron praecox. Is Erica lusitanica really any different from the Erica arborea which…

7th April

…Class 25 – 2nd with R. impeditum ‘J.C. Williams’   Class 2 – Rhododendron macabeanum, praestans, nivuem Class 5 – Rhododendron arborea niveum Class 6 – Azara microphllya ‘Variegata’ Class…

10th April

…the Drive not open. Poets hardly open. Mag halleana (nursery window) most of it open. Erica arborea very good. Standard reticulatas not open. 1923 – JCW Daffs are all over…

11th November

…Maddenia subsection. Medium sized shrub. Dark green leaves. Flowers believed to be pale yellow. Flowering period not known. CWT6406. Rhododendron fansipanense. Arborea subsection. Forms a large upright tree. Grey green,…

7th December

…but not its exceptional autumn colour. Cotoneaster horizontalis Cotoneaster horizontalis Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ is still holding most of its leaves above the Erica arborea in full flower. Not unusual in…