2017 – CHW
Surprising what is still in flower while autumn approaches.
Cornus amomum ‘Blue Cloud’ with wonderful autumn colour.
2016 – CHW
Mespilus germanica with a good crop of fruit which is not yet ripe. The tree is putting on secondary new growth after the rain.
2015 – CHW
Outside the front gates Hydrangea aspera ssp robusta (ex Crug) is flowering for the first time. Very late and long after the other aspera villosa group flowers have faded. It looks rather like a white form of Hydrangea sargentiana but now the botanists strike again and Hydrangea sargentiana is now reclassified as Hydrangea aspera subsp. sargentiana. On what basis was this change made I wonder?
Some redcurrant berries on Viburnum betulifolium but the pheasants are demolishing the lot. Supposedly this viburnum species does not fruit at a young age.
Thank you for nice pictures! But I think the top right picture of the 8th of September is wrong. It says Cornus amomum but shouldn’t it be Cercis (perhaps canadensis) ?
Greetings from Sweden!
Thank you for your comment. You are indeed correct and the picture on the right is NOT Cornus amomum ‘Blue Cloud’. We will get the correct pictures up as soon as our webmasters are back from their well deserved Christmas break!