2025 – CHW
A bit of light rain but not much.
Rhododendron decorum nearly over in the heat of the last week.
Last flowers on Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’.
A young Embothrium coccineum ‘Ñorquinco’ doing well as it was on our Chelsea stand.
Rhododendron ‘Fantasia’ at its very best.
Likewise Rhododendron ‘Lem’s Monarch’ which has taken some time to open.
Magnolia x foggii ‘Jack Fogg’.
Rhododendron yakushimanum.
Rhododendron excellens (C&H 7180) is pale yellow initially fading to white.
Deutzia longifolia – White Form.
Deutzia calycosa ‘Dali’.
Calycanthus ‘Aphrodite’.
Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’.
2024 – CHW
Paulownia kawakamii is still in full flower after Chelsea week but it has gone over quickly even in milder weather.
Paulownia kawakamii is still in full flower after Chelsea week but it has gone over quickly even in milder weather.
The bracts on our Cornus ‘Venus’, unlike the ones on the Chelsea show plant, are quickly becoming spotted with red.
Seeds have formed quickly on Acer stachyophyllum (BWJ 8101) planted in 2010 but now multi-stemmed with some dieback from dry summers.
This has to be a Photinia but no label and not in the master plan. Perhaps P. microphylla?
Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Xanthocarpa’ very sparsely bracted.
Large flowers and interesting new leaves on Crataegus cuneata which I do not remember flowering here before.
Crataegus ashei has very different and not hawthorn-like leaves.
Carpinus japonicus has very distinct long serrated leaves. Very attractive today but few flower tassels yet on this plant unlike the other nearby.
Magnolia ‘Anilou’ is a good yellow but not terribly floriferous as yet.
Carpinus henryana has equally serrated leaves but they are very different to C. japonicus when they first leaf up fully.
2023 – CHW
We provided some pictures for the attached article about George Forrest by Jo Woolf. It makes interesting reading.
We provided some pictures for the attached article about George Forrest by Jo Woolf. It makes interesting reading.
2022 – CHW
We leave Paultons Square at 8am and are home by 12.30 in an easy journey.Jaimie has helped out again today.Our very own Cornus x elwinortonii ‘Venus’ is nowhere near as good as the one on the Chelsea stand.
We leave Paultons Square at 8am and are home by 12.30 in an easy journey.Jaimie has helped out again today.Our very own Cornus x elwinortonii ‘Venus’ is nowhere near as good as the one on the Chelsea stand.
The first grass cut in Kennel Close well underway leaving the daffodils to die down.
Cornus x rutgersensis ‘Stellar Pink’ just coming.
Deutzia longifolia now full out.
Deutzia calycosa ‘Dali’
Ash trees by Tin Garden not looking well. Ash dieback disease is starting here.
Eucalyptus crenulata out in flower.
Azalea ‘Rosebud’ did not quite make it in time for Chelsea.
The many tepalled Magnolia wilsonii (ex DJHC 98369).
2021 – CHW
Flowers again this year on Trachycarpus wagnerianus despite the trunk half blowing over last winter.
Another exceptional magnolia with blue flowers initially. Magnolia acuminata ‘Seiju’.
Azalea ‘Greenway’ sporting a few white flowers in its midst. Not that many evergreen azaleas seem to do this.
Azalea ‘Purple Triumph’ in the Rockery.
Rhododendron radicans with only a few flowers.
This Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ was moved from a large pot in March and has re-established well with excellent new growth.
Flowers forming on Podocarpus matudae (male).
Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ full out.
Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’ flowering for the first time. Two previous plants died.
