…alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ looking good. Clematis alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ Clematis alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’ just coming out which is much darker in colour. Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’…

…ivy berries in similar clusters. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Some schefflera species flowered in late summer and some in mid autumn but the seeds are all…

…away in a glade but doing quite well. Does not look that ‘alpina’ to me! Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina FJW’s cross of Rhododendron moorii x Rhododendron euchates just out by…

…head gardener at Mount Congreve originally in 2007. Phyllocladus trichomanoides var. alpina Phyllocladus trichomanoides var. alpina I was wrong yesterday. Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ (pink form) is full out above the…

…this is Clematis alpina ‘Frances Rivis’. Clematis alpina ‘Frances Rivis’ Clematis alpina ‘Frances Rivis’ A leaky hose watering system. A leaky hose watering system Trachelospermum jasminoides and Rosa ‘Madame Alfred…

…Schefflera alpina was planted in 2010 and is already 12ft tall. The new growth is oddly ‘umbrella-like’ and more attractive than I had thought. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina 2015 –…

…was last year. The side shoots have emerged as the plant now has more light following the pollarding of a nearby yew. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina The very elderly Hydrangea…

…macrocarpum. Rhederodendron macrocarpum Rhederodendron macrocarpum Schefflera alpina has extraordinary brown or nearly black new growth. I have never seen this before. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Another dead mature magnolia! This…

…alpina Persicaria alpina Last week in Yorkshire I was photographing knapweed (Centaurea nigra). Here, in the nursery, is a cultivated form but still easily recognisable by flower and leaf shape…

…S. pauciflora. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina An elderly Rhododendron hookeri with attractive peeling bark which I had not taken in before. There are hairs on the leaf veins and at…

…Again I missed the flowers despite looking through the summer. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina I suspect a cold winter will put paid to the current fad for these Taiwanese exotica…

…website and an old favourite or two as well: Clematis alpina ‘Broughton Bride’ Clematis alpina ‘Broughton Bride’ Polemonium ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Polemonium ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Pittosporum undulatum Pittosporum undulatum Isopogon…

…African plant with rosemary-like leaves and rather better flowers. Gomphostigma virgatum Persicaria alpina is another new entry for the catalogue. Persicaria alpina Magnolia potting week in the nursery. Magnolia potting…

…alpina is lovely. Mrs Butler x at its best. R fargesii at its very best. R lutescens going back. The Auklandii x Arboreum white and red come on well. A…

…‘Pendula’) Despite looking like a Crataegus this is in fact the very rare and dwarfish Fraxinus xanthoxyloides var. dumosa. Fraxinus xanthoxyloides var. dumosa Nothofagus procera (alpina as it is now…

…about 15 to 20 feet in height. They are surface and shallow rooted trees. Probably a Nothofagus alpina. small Nothofagus Camellia ‘Mary Costa’ is well out by the big Acer…