…in ‘The Beast’ so seems hardy enough. Escallonia tucumanensis Escallonia tucumanensis Escallonia tucumanensis Clethra fabri (FMW 713037) with two large multiple flower spikes appearing. Dark foliage with purple undersides to…

…No Auriculatum white hybrids out yet. After a long cold dry spring much rain for weeks. Tree ferns beginning to move but several dead. Mag nitida have mostly lost their…

…to all that a cock up is emerging.Bowdens used to be simply a hosta company and now they have acquired a fern business as well. Quite what ferns and hostas…

…on the watermeadows yesterday and heard a skylark on Tuesday. Spring is here! 2015 – CHW Specimen tree ferns planted Planting of the new fernery goes well in Cheshire despite…

…Mr Tremenheere was a campaigner for social justice (children in tin mines) and education reform in the mid-19th century. The last owner to bear this name.The collection of tender ferns,…

…Dicksonia. There is still more to this as there are no tree ferns in Forty Acres Wood. My recollection was that the new fungus found was tiny, semi tropical and…

…beautifully (two named – ‘Tinner’s Bush’ and ‘High Sheriff’). Rhododendron williamsianum x Rhododendron decorum Picrasma quassioides coming into leaf. A Chinese/Japanese small, ornamental, hardy tree with good autumn colour. Picrasma…

…brown but the twigs and stems are still alive. We had always been told that this species is borderline hardy. Originally a gift from Thomas Methuen-Campbell. Quercus liebmannii Beside it…

…nearly lost in the 1970s.Hardy ferns – apologies for a dull list but an interesting record of many new species I had not seen before.Onoclea sensibilis Onoclea sensibilis Pteris nipponica…

…ferns of this species here. Cyathea medullaris The scented Rhododendron liliflora which I had never seen. Amazing scent and peeling bark. Rhododendron liliflora Rhododendron liliflora This rhododendron is apparently a…