12th October

…quite a tree! It won’t be flowering in April as the reference books say about this Canary Island laurel. Laurus azorica Laurus azorica Alongside it Eucryphia moorei in full flower….

29th March

azorica Laurus azorica Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile with yellowish new growth and red buds showing. Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile Despite the mild winter a lot of…

10th June

…leaf form some way between Ilex perado subsp. platyphylla and Ilex perado itself. Ilex perado subsp. azorica Ilex perado subsp. azorica Daphniphyllum paxianum (BSWJ 9755) Daphniphyllum paxianum Syringa tomentella flowering…

29th May

…that happy in too hot a location. Ilex chapaensis Picconia azorica making excellent new growth and now about 5 feet tall. I wonder when it will flower? Another species of…

12th April

…‘Harvest Moon’ just coming into leaf. Tilia mongolica ‘Harvest Moon’ Laurus azorica nicely out and covered in bees. Laurus azorica Laurus nobilis is nothing like as good in flower. Laurus…

7th January

…lost all but a few stragglers and has little to offer. Callicarpa shirasawanum A large bit of the record Laurus azorica has been blown over in the last couple of…

12th January

…Osmanthus yunnanensis. Only a few bits of the old pollarded tree survive. Osmanthus yunnanensis Laurus azorica covered in bud. Laurus azorica Clematis cirrhosa var. balerica full out on the lawn….

7th October

…it. This is Ilex perado subsp. perado (now called perado subsp. azorica) which remained unidentified as a huge clump before the visit of Philippe de Spoelberch in 2002. This was…

16th February

…from the East. Our veterans are clearly fully evergreen and the leaf shape is totally different.Like our Ilex kingiana and Ilex perado ssp. azorica the Trewithen plants self-seed and via…