…early autumn leaf colouring. Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Staphylea x elegans (S. colchica x S. pinnata) is known to be very variable. Our plant…

…Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Clearly the name is in the leaf not the seeds! Pinnata has trilobed seeds pods even if also pinnate leaves! Asia need to get…

…bud. Malus ‘Harry Baker’ 2023 – CHW I cut the suckers off the 3 grafted Syringa pinnata 2 years ago but to no avail. Just out now. Syringa pinnata Syringa…

…plant is tall enough to show up (against the new beech leaves behind) above the wall by the old play house. SYRINGA pinnata SYRINGA pinnata Three Syringa pinnata full out…

…pinnata Syringa pinnata This cherry above the Four in Hand was bought from Hillier’s 35 to 40 years ago. I try to identify it and the closest I get in…

…now more or less complete. Rookery clearing Rookery clearing 2022 – CHW A shriveled and rather pathetic display on Rhododendron ‘Polar Bear’ below Slip Rail. Rhododendron ‘Polar Bear’ Staphylea pinnata…

…and very few ‘bladders’ this year due to the hot summer. It is in full sun here. Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Loads of still unripe seeds on Styrax serrulatus which…

…it takes all the energy from the grafted plant which is doing well. Syringa pinnata Syringa pinnata The buds on Camellia x williamsii ‘J C Williams’ will be showing colour…

…capsules as here. Sometimes in clusters, sometimes in pairs and sometimes a single capsule of two seeds. Still green but very obvious on the small tree. Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata…

…I saw the flowers. Euonymus kiautschovicus Euonymus kiautschovicus Euonymus kiautschovicus Rodgersia pinnata full out and splendid. Rodgersia pinnata Rodgersia pinnata Allium cernuum was especially good. Worth Burncoose stocking this. Allium…

…coming out. Planted in 2014. Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Then to Burncoose to sort out the pot sizes for the two Chelsea Plant of the Year entries. The RHS supply…

…SYRINGA pinnata SYRINGA pinnata Three Syringa pinnata full out outside the front gate. I first saw this very unlilac-like syringa at Altamont Garden in south Ireland 10 years ago and…

…into flower than all the others which are now over? Staphylea pinnata Staphylea pinnata Another one bites the dust as a Chelsea exhibit. Rhododendron ‘Winsome’ out already. Rhododendron ‘Winsome’ Rhododendron…

…once huge clump of Rhododendron russatum in the Rockery. Rhododendron russatum Rhododendron russatum Rhododendron pentaphyllum (perhaps) in the Rockery. Rhododendron pentaphyllum Syringa pinnata was cut back last summer but still…

…platyphylla in the Rookery. Ilex perado subsp. platyphylla A young Quercus pinnata vendulosa in the Rookery which I had forgotten. A new species to us. Quercus pinnata vendulosa The fallen…

…ovalifolia – Forrest introduction). Lyonia ligustrina Lyonia ligustrina The bladders on Staphylea pinnata have turned pink. Staphylea pinnata And more yellow on Staphylea colchica. Staphylea colchica Rhododendron ‘Norfolk Candy’ is…

…saw the picture due to cock ups Magnolia maudiae x laevifolia: SUPERB Mahonia bealei ‘Cornish Silver’: Blue leaves and undersides Mahonia eurybracteata Mahonia pinnata: Tall grower Mahonia russellii Mexico: Needham…

…colchica with large bladders already turning colour. Some dieback on the tree in the drought. No bladders at all on the nearby Staphylea pinnata which has shed them to preserve…

…pinnata subsp arnottiana (absurd – what did Mr Arnott have against Mr Oldham?) Meliosma pungens – now simplicifolia var pungens (we have an elderly original) Meliosma cuneifolia – now Meliosma…

…1916 – JCW Many Rhodo’s of sorts and kinds opening but the fences of Berberis fascicularis ( or Pinnata) make the best January flowering shrubs that we have seen ,…