12th April

…Camellia reticulata ‘Lady Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Crimson Robe’ x ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Crimson Robe’ x ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Crimson Robe’ x ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata…

23rd February 1897 – 2020

…changes and increases as it develops. The colour pales too. Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’…

2nd March

…Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ just starting to flower properly 2-3 years from planting. Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’…

24th February 1897 – 2020

…reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ is particularly splendid in the cash point. Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Francie L’ is not bad either although…

1st February

…baileyana ‘Purpurea’ Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ out in the greenhouse – a sort of double or even treble flower. Good to see Asia propagating these difficult named forms of…

19th February

…reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ well out high up. Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Blown out magnolia flowers through and over the arch. Blown out magnolia flowers 2024 – CHW Rain…

21st March

…covered in flowers beside the old Playhouse. Illicium anisatum Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ beyond the old Playhouse. Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Mouchang’ beyond the old Playhouse….

26th May

…‘Greenway’ Azalea ‘Purple Triumph’ in the Rockery. Azalea ‘Purple Triumph’ Rhododendron radicans with only a few flowers. Rhododendron radicans This Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ was moved from a large pot…

28th May

…flowers are superb. Perhaps Azalea ‘Bungo-nishiki’ which is indicum x kaempferi. A must to propagate anyway I do not recollect ever seeing this in flower before. ‘Carpeted’! Azalea ‘Purple Triumph’…

31st January

…down. Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ Another Camellia reticulata, this one is ‘Arch of Triumph’, suddenly out earlier than expected. ‘Arch of Triumph’ Camellia reticulata ‘Mary…

1st March

…plant out where from the Rockery Nursery we find a large forgotten (but our only decent sized and half mature) Melliodendron xylocarpum with its first few flowers out. A triumph

8th March

…out old family paperwork and this amusing 1972 invoice for my mother’s automatic triumph dolomite car has emerged. £1,500 for a car 50 or so years on makes you think…

11th September

…African Slavers generally knew better than to bother the British Isles in the search for slaves because of the Royal Navy. It was a triumph that Britain was finally able…

18th November

…you should give it space and leave it to run riot. Pterocarya fraxinifolia 2020 – CHW Collected a good crop of seeds from Camellia reticulata ‘Arch of Triumph’. A 25…

27th December

…election promise of a year ago to ‘Get Brexit Done’. A remarkable feat of negotiation which will go down in history as a triumph for UK democracy. We voted to…

3rd February 1897 – 2020

…claim no credit for unearthing this horticultural curiosity for you. The trunk of the parent is still alive so the sapling may or may not triumph eventually. Thuja plicata Thuja…