…Dancer’ Clematis alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’ just coming out which is much darker in colour. Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’ Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’ Picea abies ‘Rydal’ with…

…in orange-brown indumentum. Schefflera macrophylla Schefflera macrophylla Schefflera alpina has seeds like ivy berries in similar clusters. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Some schefflera species flowered in…

…Donkey Shoe. Rhododendron veitchianum Rhododendron veitchianum Rhododendron veitchianum Schefflera alpina is hidden away in a glade but doing quite well. Does not look that ‘alpina’ to me! Schefflera alpina Schefflera…

…although the leaves are very different and much larger. Again I missed the flowers despite looking through the summer. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina I suspect a cold winter will put…

…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 – CHW…

…have emerged as the plant now has more light following the pollarding of a nearby yew. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina The very elderly Hydrangea sargentiana in the Auklandii Garden is…

…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 time Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’….

…different in colour to 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…

…the 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…

…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 formosanus Isopogon formosanus Photinia ‘Louise’…