28th March

…not identical to the P. flexuosa new shoots at Burncoose. Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa One multi-stemmed Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ is now full out and at its…

21st January

…Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa A good clump now in the teeth of the wind on one of the three islands is Phyllostachys aurea. Other bamboo species…

23rd June

…to watch and key out when properly out. Drooping, terminal panicles of flowers here. Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa Quercus cerris ‘Argenteovariegata’ showing up well now that…

26th July

…To recap, we have (or had) plants originally labelled M. dilleniifolia subsp. tenuis, M. dillenifolia subsp. cuneifolia and M. dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa. The smaller plants of the latter have died…

31st July

…against Mr Oldham?) Meliosma pungens – now simplicifolia var pungens (we have an elderly original) Meliosma cuneifolia – now Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp cuneifolia Meliosma flexuosa – now Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp…

11th March

flexuosa up Hovel Cart Road has still got most of last year’s leaves on the small tree. Bizarre! So we will not easily see the wonderful orange downing on the…

10th July

…subsp. cuneifolia (plumes of creamy white flowers with hawthorn-like fragrance) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa (pendant terminal panicles of fragrant white flowers) Melisoma dilleniifolia subsp. tenuis (pyramidcal nodding panicles of tiny…

10th April

…After much reading and viewing ‘A Complete Compendium of Chinese Bamboo’ I am not much the wiser. I had always thought this was Phyllostachys flexuosa but it does not seem…

23rd July

…cuneifolia Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. flexuosa Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. tenius (probably all samples were tenius)Whatever their true identity they are small low growing and spreading small shrubs and nothing at all…