28th March

…are 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…

21st January

…pond at Burncoose too where it tries, as here, to run wild. Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa A good clump now in the teeth of the wind…

23rd June

…Drooping, terminal panicles of flowers here. Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa Quercus cerris ‘Argenteovariegata’ showing up well now that all the shoots with reverted green leaves have…

26th July

…(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 since 2020 having been…

31st July

…Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp cuneifolia Meliosma flexuosa – now Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp flexuosa Meliosma tenuis – now Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp tenuis New Trees (effectively the ninth reference volume of Bean) implies…

11th March

…been more or less blasted away. Interesting to remember that we saw secondary (and darker) flowers on the same tree only last October. Magnolia denudata ‘Forrests Pink’ The Meliosma flexuosa

10th July

…fragrance) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa (pendant terminal panicles of fragrant white flowers) Melisoma dilleniifolia subsp. tenuis (pyramidcal nodding panicles of tiny creamy yellow flowers)So not an easy starting point with…

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

…of what we have labelled as:- Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. cuneifolia Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. flexuosa Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. tenius (probably all samples were tenius)Whatever their true identity they are small low…