16th December

…more tender than some species but this may well not turn out to be true. Schefflera gracilis Schefflera gracilis Schefflera gracilis Schefflera gracilis Schefflera taiwaniana we know to be perfectly…

25th December

…bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ Fuchsia gracilis still in flower with a few leaves as has become normal in mild wet autumns. Fuchsia gracilis Camellia x vernalis ‘Yuletide’ has just made it…

30th June

…now. Much less tall growing that Fuchsia ‘Riccartonii’. Fuchsia magellanica var gracilis Fuchsia magellanica var gracilis Fuchsia magellanica var gracilis A clump of (I think) Iris foetida in full shade…

1st January 1897 – 2020

…Fuchsia gracilis. Fuchsia gracilis The snowdrops are now starting to flower and show all around the Four in Hand. snowdrops First flowers on Camellia ‘Debbie’ below the fernery. Camellia ‘Debbie’…

3rd February 1897 – 2020

…be used to control squirrels in grain barns or attics or so I believe. Kania 2000 traps 2018 – CHW Plenty of early new growth on Fuchsia gracilis confirming a…

15th December

…biloba Ginkgo biloba Ginkgo biloba Magnolia dawsoniana still has most of its leaves which are nicely coloured in the sun. Magnolia dawsoniana Magnolia dawsoniana Fuchsia gracilis still has a few…

1st October

…counted. Camellia sasanqua A rather nice combination of berries on Cotoneaster horizontalis and flowers on Fuchsia magellanica var. gracilis. Cotoneaster horizontalis Astonished to find plenty of flowers on Rhododendron mucronulatum…

22nd September

…catkins. Planted by the old dog kennels. Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ Zelkova sicula curana has established well in its first year. A rare shrubby species with…

8th August

…Hillier’s the correct name is now Fuchsia magallanica var molinae whereas the ‘true’ ‘Alba’ has a pink corolla! JCW collected fuchsia species in the 1930s and this, like Fuchsia gracilis