…spinosa. One full of flower, one with no flowers, and one half dead due to water logging. Desfontainia spinosa Desfontainia spinosa Desfontainia spinosa The rather dull and unusual smelling Buddleja…

…a yellow tip to the orange and some not? Desfontainea spinosa Desfontainea spinosa Camellia ‘Manuroa Road’ still with a flower. Camellia ‘Manuroa Road’ Escallonia tucumanensis with its drooping white flowers….

…spinosa, with red rather than the more usual orange flowers. Desfontainia spinosa Desfontainia spinosa Picconia excelsa which we have recently planted at Caerhays. Picconia excelsa Picconia excelsa 2022 – CHW…

…fine crop of nearly ripe sloes this year on the Prunus spinosa. A bumper crop for sloe gin makers. Prunus spinosa Prunus spinosa Hazelnuts (Corylus avellana) nearly ripe rather early…

…of Prunus spinosa ‘Plena’. He writes one of the nicest thank you letters that C & B have ever received. Competitors but great and longstanding friends – rather ‘old school’…

…– first flowering and interesting. Magnolia ‘Wim Rutten’ Magnolia ‘Wim Rutten’ The blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is a joy in all the hedgerows around and about. Prunus spinosa Magnolia ‘Sentinel’ is…

…excellens Rhododendron excellens Our young Desfontainea spinosa have their first flowers. Much larger and longer than on the old dead plant here or the stock plant at Burncoose. Some slug…

…a good show. Hydrangea sargentiana ‘Gold Rush’ Hydrangea sargentiana ‘Gold Rush’ See how different this flower is on our Desfontainea spinosa than the one a week ago at Osborne House…

…Leucanthemum ‘Goldfinch’ – I have seen this in Isle of Wight Garden Centres. Will be popular. Leucanthemum ‘Goldfinch’ Then quickly into Treseders Nursery. Prostanthera spinosa – and it was! Not…

…Cornus capitata Flowers and buds on Desfontainia spinosa but one of the 3 plants has died over the summer. Desfontainia spinosa Hydrangea aspera ‘Tatiana’ from Tregrehan nearly over. Hydrangea aspera…

…tree native in S. Europe. From a distance I noticed a huge hedgerow of white beside Derrecks Wood and assumed it was blackthorn or sloe (Prunus spinosa) but, close up,…