…distinct leaves. Our small tree looks tiny in comparison. Acer sempervirens Acer sempervirens Tregothnan from what was the old garden windbreak now removed. Tregothnan Corylopsis pauciflora – a startlingly good…

…Photinia nitakayensis has just finished flowering. Photinia nitakayensis Photinia nitakayensis Aristolochia sempervirens with peculiar ‘mouse-like’ flowers (like arisarum?). A vigorous climber but how tender? Aristolochia sempervirens Aristolochia sempervirens Aristolochia sempervirens…

…the flower cones coming out. Pinus hartwegii Pinus hartwegii Athrotaxis sempervirens is the only one of the 3 species of Athrotaxis not yet growing at Caerhays. Athrotaxis sempervirens Athrotaxis sempervirens…

…this to be performing! Jaimie cut a spray and brought it into the house for inspection as I might well not have believed him. Sequoia sempervirens Sequoia sempervirens 2017 –…

…Aristolochia sempervirens with its rather modest flowers by the standards of other Aristolochia. Aristolochia sempervirens Aristolochia sempervirens Pyramid orchids in the Isle of Wight in a chalk downland meadow. orchids…

…Sequoia sempervirens Sequoia sempervirens Quercus insignis with new growth frosted as we had feared. Quercus insignis Despite the demise of the large Rhododendron hookeri last week there is another nearby…

…last autumn but only now is it starting to die off. Rainfall has sustained it through the winter. Prunus pilosiuscula In 1991 I planted Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum side…

…fortunei albomarginata in flower. Hosta fortunei albomarginata Well clipped Buxus sempervirens and Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald ‘n’ Gold’. Buxus sempervirens Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’ and Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’. Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’…

…looking splendid. Magnolia kobus var. borealis Laurelia sempervirens in full flower back from Rookery Gate. Strongly aromatic leaves when crunched up but little scent from the flowers. Laurelia sempervirens Rhododendron…

…Cotoneaster glomerulatus Cotoneaster glomerulatus Suprsingly some leaves still on the peculiar and dwarfish Acer sempervirens which Susyn Andrews identified for us. Acer sempervirens First few flowers out on Camellia grijsii…