5th June

…the flowers as shaped like a toad’s mouth opening. The only vaguely similar shaped flower I know is Clerodendron. Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Looking good in…

6th June

…I have been told that Borde Hill have flowered this but need to confirm. Carrierrea calycina Carrierrea calycina Carrierrea calycina Carrierrea calycina The water bowser is in place and very…

8th June

calycina Carrierea calycina Flowers on a young Sorbus hupehensis. Sorbus hupehensis Pterocarya rhederiana ‘Fern Leaf’ with its genuinely extraordinary foliage. This young plant has much better foliage than the one…

2nd November

…the normal leaves, then the curling and, finally, the dropping. Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina Tony Kirkham’s great introduction of Paulownia kawakamii from Taiwan is already laden with bud…

23rd April

…– the largest I have seen in full sun. Presumably close to its first flowering. Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina Quercus crassifolia – not looking too evergreen. Nice bark. Quercus crassifolia…

10th June

…Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina Azalea ‘Gumpo’ nicely out in the garden in full shade. A Nakahari hybrid which flowers very late with a compact habit. Azalea ‘Gumpo’ Azalea ‘Gumpo’ Rhododendron…

16th June

…the original and older one. Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina We missed this tree holly with Tom the other day below Slip Rail. No idea really but conceivably Ilex latifolia? A…

1st July

…initially. Carrieria calycina Carrieria calycina Cercidophyllum ‘Red Fox’ has extraordinarily dark leaves and shows up a mile away in the other greenery. A columnar habit and smallish blue-black leaves edged…

7th July

…2 older plants. Longer, more pointed leaves which are darker in colour. Carrierea calycina Carrierea calycina 2022 – CHW Quite a few shrubs flowering away in the nursery today.Blepharocalyx cruckshankii…

19th July

…out. Liquidambar calycina Liquidambar calycina 2016 – CHW Five hours with a BT surveyor on the hottest day of the year trying to work out the cost and practicalities of…

27th December

…which I have not seen before. Good even when shed on the ground. Acer sikkimense Acer sikkimense Acer sikkimense Amazingly Carrieria calycina has some leaf buds just breaking. Carrieria calycina

April 2024 Ireland Trip (Day 2)

…selected form of Rhododendron augustinii which may have once been named. Not a leaf to be seen. Rhododendron augustinii The oldest Carrierea calycina in the country. Not a huge tree…

30th July

…A rare aberration from the then protocol. Chordospartium stevensonii (coastal plant seen at Ventnor)Carriera calycina (original plant here from Penrice Castle) Cornus kousa ‘Xanthocarpa’ (yellow fruits – very rare) Deutzia…

31st July

…nursery. Reminds me of the flower shape of Carrieria calycina also seen for the first time this year but these flowers are much smaller. Poliothrysis sinensis Poliothrysis sinensis Euonymus grandiflorus…