…orangensis – huge flower! Tibouchina orangensis Tibouchina orangensis Mahonia eurybracta ‘Soft Caress’ – a few plants the rabbits missed. Mahonia eurybracta ‘Soft Caress’ Mahonia eurybracta ‘Soft Caress’ Saxifraga ‘Black Ruby’…

…this year’s record of cotoneaster berries here is Cotoneaster Hybridus Pendulus. Cotoneaster Hybridus Pendulus Cotoneaster Hybridus Pendulus Good autumn colour on Pistacia chinensis. Pistacia chinensis Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ nicely…

…x Sycoparrotia ‘Purple Haze’ Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’ full out before mid-November! Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’ Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ now full out in the nursery and the garden. Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft…

…eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ just out in flower. Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ Magnolia aquifolium with good autumn colour. Magnolia aquifolium 2022 – CHW A large pallet of daffodil bulbs arrive (as…

…down conclusively in the reference books? growing in a long line on tree roots by the look of it. milkcap milkcap Some sort of puffball? Possibly stump puffball or soft…

…in fact soft and prickly ‘fruits’ so there we are. Well worth a look in a week or two as I have never seen this before on any of our…

…It broke again and made shoots of 2ft by October but very soft. 1925 – JCW Well ahead of 1922 say ten days ago almost all the Sutchuenense show flowers…

…soft weather, Hepatica angulosa, Chimodoxa out, first Caerhays daff shows colour, white hoop petticoat out, minimus at its best, Blood Red Arboreum shows colour, C sardensis shows colour, Glory of…

…cut, Geraniums probably dead. The Saluensis Camellias all coming out again but no colour on any Rhodo. This frost harder than Dec 38 but plants not so soft. Hamamelis quite…

…the hardest frost I can remember, I expect all the fuchsias are dead and the flower buds in all our soft rhodo’s. 1932 – JCW Erica darleyense is starting to…

…rain for weeks and no daffs but polyanthus in sight. Roses good, all fuchsias and soft stuff cut out. 1901 – JCW A few daffs besides Polyanthus coming through the…

…must be soft. Acacias on wall trying hard. 1900 – JCW Came down for the election, cyclamen fair. The supposed C Dickens x has several up in its pan amongst…

…full out. The clump is 15ft tall and equally as wide. Buddleia salvifolia Buddleia salvifolia Fagus sylvatica ‘Zlatia’ has soft yellow leaves at first (as here) but they turn green…

…drive. Very early in view of how late these trees were into leaf after The Beast. Seed heads Seed heads I always have a soft spot for the (now) wild…

…so, and a very short life in our climate. Just the stumps left to burn up. Very soft and spongy wood. Paulownia tomentosa ‘Lilacina’ Uplifting a beech tree and a…

…taken in four to six weeks when still soft (fragrantissimum, formosum, Princess Alice, Lady Alice Fitzwilliam, Berts Own, HarryTagg, Anne Teese, ciliicalyx, Countess of Haddington, Michaels Pride etc). Outside the…

…out time to brief Asia on the ones to take cuttings from in five to six weeks’ time when they are soft. Rhododendron sinonuttalii has buds for the first time…

…too close to the drive. A soft pink blush to the opening flowers quickly turning pure white. Magnolia ‘Alixeed’ A tail end flower on Magnolia dawsoniana ‘Chyverton Red’ on the…

…tree? Ucodendron whartonii Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile with attractive flower buds and soft new growth. A very compact and neat small rounded shrub. Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile Daphniphyllum macropodum var….

…Blush’ and ‘Fairy Wand’ Camellia ‘Coral Bright’, ‘Fairy Blush’ and ‘Fairy Wand’ I have a very soft spot for this Korean form of Magnolia cylindrica. The flowers are not pure…