21st October

…dense shrubby habit and rounded ball like habit. Does best in full sun as here. Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Gumball’ (‘Gum Ball’) has…

9th November

…‘Oconee’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Gumball’ has just one spray at the top which is going purple. Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Gumball’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Gumball’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Kia’ is not bad but not as…

15th November

…showers. Magnolia ‘Peachy’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ with its autumn colours. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Idesia polycarpa still with clusters of berries intact in the wind….

23rd November

styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ with wonderful red autumn colour. The new leaves may be yellow but the winter colour is not! Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Golden Sun’ Betula luminifera…

22nd October

…real red although some leaves are still green. Quite a sight today in the pale sunlight. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua

29th July

…has broken (as usual). About three seed capsules in varying stages of development. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ First flowers high up on…

6th September

…a good month after it first started flowering. Buddleia lindleyana Buddleia lindleyana Seed heads on Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ An unusual combination – Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red…

25th October

…will be a feature plant one day. Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Red Star’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Red Star’ 1998 – FJW Many flowers on Nov Pink. Very wet year…

5th November

…to much merriment, the wire surround was empty! (Merriment from Lord Falmouth anyway.) Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ 1917 – JCW The C sasanquas have begun…

29th December

…Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ below Sinogrande Walk. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Even better on Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Gum Ball’ above the same path. Both very rounded small trees or large shrubs which were…

4th November

…Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’ Azalea ‘Greenway’ has three pink buds. Often an odd out of season flower on this variety. Azalea ‘Greenway’ 2015 – CHW I have just…

16th January

…Simplex’ Unexpectedly leaves remain on Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ and still have good colour. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconee’ 2021 – CHW Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ now coming out properly on…

18th November

…today. Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Red Sentinel’ Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Red Sentinel’ A seedling Cornus alternifolia self sown beside the original on Bond Street has promise as autumn colour with a few inner…

6th May

…planted here was a gift from Lord Falmouth which got stolen. Liquidambar styraciflua Liquidambar styraciflua One of the wonders of lockdown is finding a new plant which you had no…

1st September

…which we grow this one has the best shape particularly for smaller gardens. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconea’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Oconea’ The dreaded climbing Toxiodendron (which is for the chop) has early…

8th April

…King’ leafing up nicely. The silver variegation is irregular. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Silver King’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Silver King’ Quercus monimotricha which Asia has cleverly grown from cuttings. Drooping silvery new growth…

26th March

…Magnolia ‘Black Velvet’ Magnolia ‘Black Velvet’ Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Silver King’ was a gift from Windsor Great Park and John Anderson. No doubt it will get more silvery. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Silver…

5th February

…Sycopsis sinensis Sycopsis sinensis Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ just out. Helleborus ‘Red Lady’ Small Liquidambar styraciflua with just a few purple-red leaves remaining at the top of the plants. Liquidambar styraciflua

2nd November

…Cotoneaster glomerulatus Cotoneaster glomerulatus The variegated leaved Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Silver King’ was a gift from Windsor. Autumn colour is starting to show up but not as I had expected it…

18th March 1897 – 2020

…more developing. At Burncoose the tree grows in full shade which it likes. Sciadopitys verticellata Sciadopitys verticellata Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Oconee’ still has the odd leaf left. You can now see…