…few are pictured here. Rhus typhina ‘Tiger Eyes’ Rhus typhina ‘Tiger Eyes’ Itoa orientalis Itoa orientalis Lomatia tinctoria Lomatia tinctoria The stand is in memory of David Knuckey and his…

…caught in a massive hailstorm which wrecks the magnolias in Giddle Orchard before our eyes. Not a good start to the Garden of the Year celebrations. 2015 – CHW The…

…The new bench in the large greenhouse is complete and already full as the other benches get new insulation. new bench Rhus ‘Tiger Eyes’ with its developing autumn glow. Rhus…

…Magnolia ‘Pink Kobus’ is not really a pink form of M kobus. It only really has a hint of pink in bud and you have to strain your eyes to…

…compare this with D. purpurascens and the rather smaller flowered Deutzia ‘Dark Eyes’ which Burncoose sells. I have not yet begun to sort the newer deutzia species in my own…

…1897 the earliest year) CJ Backhouse over, many coloured flat eyes open and Magnolia halleana (stellata) is good. The red ribes are opening, Berberis darwinii shows colour, Prunus pissardi is…

…explaining how she prefers ‘floppy’ ones rather than the group’s choice of Rhododendron yakushimanum ‘Koichiro Wada’ as their favourite. The president’s eyes say to me: ‘I haven’t really got time…

…pandemic. We all say goodbye and good luck to each other with very long faces and a tear or two in the eyes.Lockdown is coming nearer for all non-essential businesses….

…before our eyes. Nature at its most barbaric. Magpies of course do this all the time to small birds nests so perhaps poetic justice. Sadly it was hailing at the…

…many of our best saucer eyes, Dante, 137. 1900 – JCW Took the pollen out of the first Lulworth, saw a bit of Cerasus pendula open. 1899 – JCW Tulips…