4th July

…tree is 20ft plus tall and every twig has a cluster of lobster claw flowers. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Ligustrum confusum is a record tree. Rather…

2nd July

…one of the things which we know will be out and sell well at Hampton Court. The best thing in the garden today. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Neolitsea…

24th June

…plant – Lomatia ferruginea at its best. We pruned up the lower branches last autumn and the trunk is producing new shoots. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Ligustrum confusum with huge…

11th November

…copiously all over. Asia needs to wait a week or two before using the long handled pruners to collect the seed. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Autumnal views over Hovel Cart…

4th February

…trunk. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea First flowers on the pinker form of Rhododendron irroratum. Nowhere near as good a form as the Burncoose plants which have spots on the inside…

28th August

…seeds have failed to form this year and the plant looks sickly to say the least. Lomatia ferruginea Lomatia ferruginea Neolitsea aff. polycarpas (KWJ 12309), right beside it has, however,…

5th January

…needle formation here however. Cephalotaxus harringtonia Cephalotaxus harringtonia Cephalotaxus harringtonia Cephalotaxus harringtonia Still green fruit pods on Lomatia ferruginea but they are already splitting and the seed is scattering. I…

25th May

…Weinmannia trichosperma. Weinmannia trichosperma A good batch of recently potted Lomatia ferruginea. Lomatia ferruginea Embothrium lanceolatum seedlings have germinated well and are now being pricked out and potted in small…

6th October

…Prumnopitys ferruginea, the other New Zealand species of Prumnopitys, according to the reference books. It is clearly a Podocarpus and very probably Podocarpus acutifolius. In its juvenile form it is…

25th December

…‘Havener’ Alniphyllum eberhartii is still in full leaf and behaving like an evergreen which it is not! Alniphyllum eberhartii Alniphyllum eberhartii Lomatia ferruginea has many pea-like seedpods but these are…