8th November

…small base but will never be a decent shape. Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ Camellia oleifera is now full out. A 25ft tall tree. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera The long…

9th November

…C. oleifera. Undoubtedly our original plant is a Wilson or Forrest original. It self-seeds itself in several places around the garden. Camellia oleiferas Camellia oleiferas Camellia oleiferas Camellia oleiferas Still…

6th October

…in flower. Disgusting scent to the leaves when crushed. Clerodendron oxyphyllum Clerodendron oxyphyllum The true Camellia oleifera. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Schefflera macrophylla glowing in the evening sun. Flowers not…

17th November

…the younger new growth the flowers hang down and the centres are not readily visible. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Odd out of season flowers on Azalea ‘Greenway’ as usual. Azalea…

23rd February 1897 – 2020

…flowering. How I could have muddled this with Camellia taliensis beggars belief! We do have some hybrids but perhaps not the true species. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Rhododendron…

15th November

…and the team have just started a clean-up in this area. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera 2016 – CHW Still plenty of flowers coming on Magnolia grandiflora as usual…

23rd December

…a good eight weeks since it first showed colour. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Grass cutting in Kennel Close in Christmas week. Notionally to allow us to see the new daffodil…

30th January

…‘May Costa’ Camellia japonica ‘May Costa’ Camellia oleifera ‘Pink Icicle’ (C. oleifera x C. williamsii ‘November Pink’) is, as you might expect when you think about it, rather a mess….

1st November

oleifera Camellia oleifera 2016 – CHW Below the tower today with lots to see.Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Gold Rush’ has turned a brownish yellow in this autumn. An odd colour in marked…

25th October

…Early! Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ Camellia x oleifera ‘Winters Snowman’ just out. Camellia x oleifera ‘Winters Snowman’ Camellia x oleifera ‘Winters Snowman’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Sparkling Burgundy’ just out…

25th July

…hedge. Olearia x oleifera ‘Waikariensis’ Olearia x oleifera ‘Waikariensis’ Olearia x oleifera ‘Waikariensis’ Podocarpus lawrencei ‘Red Tip’ – a Dutch raised dwarfish hybrid with attractive blue-green foliage and striking red…

18th September

…Stewartia rostrata Camellia oleifera with buds nearly showing colour. With one downpour I think it would be out in September and around a month early after the drought. Camellia oleifera

18th October

…with pinkish-red fruits. Photinia niitakayamensis First flowers on Camellia oleifera. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera 2018 – CHW Cornus capitata with the largest strawberry fruits that I have ever seen. Two…

20th October

…Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Nice colouring on Diospyros kaki. Diospyros kaki Diospyros kaki This is a young Frank Matthews grown Malus hupehensis in the Isla Rose Plantation. It is perhaps…

31st October

…Talsma’ 2018 – CHW Camellia oleifera is now out too. It was showing colour a week or two ago. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Quite an autumn show on Quercus palustris…

29th November

Oleifera full out – one half open bud on November Pink. Very wet November. 1986 – FJW Picked one miserable flower on Oleifera. Late year. Dry early autumn. Wet November….

9th December

…up on the smaller flowering form of Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’. Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Still decent flowers on Camellia oleifera many weeks after we first saw them. Camellia oleifera The Camellia…

10th December

…what I assume from its location must be a self sown seedling of Camellia oleifera. Small flowers but very lovely really and absolutely full out (as of course is Camellia…

11th September

…out quite soon and there are plenty of buds. Camellia oleifera Camellia oleifera Across the path one has to stop and admire the secondary new growth on Cercidiphyllum ‘Red Fox’….

7th December

…Earliest Camellia was the one outside the front gate – been out for two weeks. Oleifera quite good considering the hard winter last year. Just beginning to get flower on…