…‘Purple and Bloom’ Salvia ‘Purple and Bloom’ Salvia ‘Big Blue’ not bad either. Salvia ‘Big Blue’ Salvia ‘Big Blue’ 2022 – CHW The hydrangea season is getting into full swing…

…2017 catalogue here in full flower. This rather odd South African salvia species certainly has an odd flower and remaining bract – Salvia africano-lutea (Beach salvia). Salvia africano-lutea Salvia africano-lutea…

…earlier. nerine Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ as good as ever in October and, frost permitting, it will carry on to December. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Salvia x jamensis…

…full radiant flower. It has survived here for several winters. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Hanging over the wall above the salvia is a flower…

…Salvia Salvia Salvia Cornus kousa ‘Rasen’ just flecking with pink before going redder. Quite a sight today. Planted 2001 in the x veitchii clearing then. Cornus kousa ‘Rasen’ Cornus kousa…

…going to seed? Arisaema Salvia cacaliifolia – introduced 1858. Salvia cacaliifolia Salvia involucrata ‘Mrs Pope’. Salvia involucrata ‘Mrs Pope’ Salvia involucrata ‘Mrs Pope’ Asphodeline lutea setting seed – introduced 1596….

…‘Candy Floss’ was nice enough and decently scented. Dianthus ‘Candy Floss’ An interesting new fern which I had not seen before – Cheilanthes lanosa. Cheilanthes lanosa Salvia ‘Deep Blue’. Salvia…

…but not clear if it is edible? Macrolepiota procera Macrolepiota procera A good array of salvias in Jaimie’s new garden. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ and Salvia ‘Amistad’. salvias Salvia…

…first time beside the main greenhouse. This is a woody perennial which is frost tender. Very beautiful and striking. Salvia confertiflora Salvia confertiflora Salvia confertiflora Melianthus villosus setting seed. This…

…long dark calyxes. It is not in Hillier’s but Asia needs to propagate it fast! Not sure who gave us this? Asia may know? Salvia dombeyi Salvia dombeyi Salvia dombeyi…

…Tulbaghia violacea by the thousand! Tulbaghia violacea Out today in the nursery: Salvia ‘Waverley’ Salvia ‘Waverley’ Sarcococca ruscifolia Sarcococca ruscifolia Salvia confertiflora Salvia confertiflora Cornus sanguinea ‘Winter Beauty’ looking spectacular….

…elata with drooping flowers and trumpets with yellow spotted insides. Rehmannia elata Rehmannia elata Rehmannia elata Salvia ‘Ost Friesland’ is a good low growing hardy salvia favoured by landscapers for…

…speak of so here it is again. Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ These hemerocallis were a gift to my father 40 years ago from Lady Anne Carew-Pole who bred…

…good as ‘Love and Wishes’ perhaps? Salvia ‘Amistad’ Salvia ‘Amistad’ 2017 – CHW A garden tour with some South Africans who live in the UK for painfully obvious reasons.A plant…

…late July in a border. Coreopsis ‘Rum Punch’ Salvia ‘Icing Sugar’ is yet another ‘new’ one of these tender things but quite nice. I wonder who raised all these. Salvia…

…ripe but they have now turned red. Tetradium ruticarpum Flowers again on Salvia dombeyi. Extraordinarily pretty and huge (6-8’’ long)! Salvia dombeyi Salvia dombeyi At last we see the first…

…in full flower. Salvia ‘Waverley’ Salvia ‘Waverley’ Tibouchina urvilleana ‘Variegata’ Tibouchina urvilleana ‘Variegata’ Itea virginica ‘Merlot’ with autumn colours. Itea virginica ‘Merlot’ 2019 – CHW Camellia sasanqua ‘Dazzler’ has been…

…a granite trough outside the estate office as well. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ The first yellow flowers are just out on the bushy Jasminum…

…portico. Fascicularia bicolor The extraordinary red flowered and vigorously climbing Salvia gesneriiflora. I thought it was Salvia dombeyi but was quite wrong. This grows to 20 feet. Salvia gesneriiflora Tetra[?]…

…Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ nicely out by the drawing room window. It shows up well against the Pentewan granite. Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ The Magnolia delavayi…