2025 – CHW
The garden is very nearly over for another year – Styrax and Stewartia aside – and we desperately need more rain. The first drought victims are already dying.
New growth on Schefflera macrophylla.
Another young Magnolia wilsonii.
Tom Hudson’s new unnamed Meliosma with attractive new growth.
Pinkish seeds forming on Acer sikkimense.
Rhododendron ‘Yellow Petticoats’.
Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’.
Rhododendron nuttallii.
A good cut back of Ilex perado subsp. platyphylla in the Rookery.
A young Quercus pinnata vendulosa in the Rookery which I had forgotten. A new species to us.
The fallen Eurya japonica has had a hair cut and will be up-righted I hope.
A rhododendron grown from Group seed (via Mayor Howell) which I seem to remember was supposed to be Rh. fulvum. Just about believable but not true to the proper species. Late flowering.
2024 – CHW
Rosa ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ in a pot outside the Stable Flat.
Rosa ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ in a pot outside the Stable Flat.
Roy Lancaster sends me his pictures of three very rare plants flowering in his garden.
Lonicera calcarata.
Clematis patens.
Mahonia hartwegii growing up a Trachycarpus.
A good bit of flower on a young Distylium racemosum in Tin Garden.
First flowering of newly planted and very rare Tilia callidonta (bought Pan Global Plants).
Enkianthus deflexus flowers much later than the other species and remains my favourite.
Seed well formed on Berberis wilsoniae even though there are still some flowers showing.
Still plenty of buds on Magnolia x wieseneri.
Deutzia calycosa ‘Dali’ still plastered in flower.
Philadelphus schrenkii var. jackii just coming out.
Magnolia ‘Porcelain Dove’ has been in bud for weeks but now finally out.
Nothing quite compares to Deutzia ‘Strawberry Fields’ by the Hovel turning.
2023 – CHW
No rain now for the best part of 3 weeks.
Malus x micromalus full out and a great spectacle today.
Camellia japonica ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ still full out on 1st June.
Deciduous azaleas at the Green Gate to welcome visitors.
Rhododendron stamineum, the butterfly rhododendron, in the Main Quarry. I fear this group are overflowering and at the end of their lives but we do have plenty of younger plants coming on.
Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ at its best.
Cornus kousa ‘Satomi’ just coming.
The old, gnarled and much damaged Paulownia tomentosa in the Main Quarry. Plant Paulownias where you can look down on them is the cry but, as here, the flowers are still too far away to properly appreciate their beauty. One of the very best blue flowers. P. tomentosa is said to produce a good tree crown on a single stem (with suckering) but our 50-60 year old tree has no crown at all and no suckers!
2022 – CHW
Magnolia ‘Banana Split’ still has a few flowers showing despite the heavy and welcome rainstorms of late which delivered an inch or two of rain.
Walnuts now starting to form from the female flower stalks on Juglans ailanthifolia.
Still quite a few flowers left on Magnolia ‘Daphne’ – five to six weeks since it started.
Trachycarpus wagnerianus in full flower despite (or perhaps because) it was half blown over a year or so ago and had its root system disturbed.
Three plants of Philadelphus caucasicus were planted in a group in Kennel Close only in 2019. Today they make a great show and will soon join up into a big clump. A very vigorous species planted with plenty of room in full sun.
Aesculus californica still in tight bud.
Eucalyptus simonosii is covered in buds but the only flowers out as yet are on the lowest branches. The peeling bark is excellent too.
2021 – CHW
Bank holiday morning at the nursery with Justin picking out 150 unusual plants to sell at the rare plant fair at Tregrehan next Sunday.A trip to locate some of the things still in flower to film with Rick Stein on Wednesday. The second objective was to photograph a few pittosporum species in flower.Ilex yunnanensis in full growth with flower buds showing.
Bank holiday morning at the nursery with Justin picking out 150 unusual plants to sell at the rare plant fair at Tregrehan next Sunday.A trip to locate some of the things still in flower to film with Rick Stein on Wednesday. The second objective was to photograph a few pittosporum species in flower.Ilex yunnanensis in full growth with flower buds showing.
Lithocarpus glabrata (from Crûg) in full new growth. Looking at the leaf I wonder if it is true to name?
Pittosporum adaphniphylloides in full flower with seeds forming. It is becoming a decent small tree and fully evergreen.
I have missed the flowers on Pittosporum bicolor but the new growth is anything but pittosporum-like.
I had always thought this elderly 20-25ft tall plant was Pittosporum illiciodes before Roy Lancaster gave me a plant with long thin evergreen leaves and slender stalked flowers. This plant is normally evergreen or semi evergreen but not this year after the February winds. I do not think it is at all like the Pittosporum heterophyllum which we grow in the nursery and, judging by its flower, it is probably also Pittosporum adaphniphylloides?
Rhododendron excellens full out by Georges Hut. The first flowering of this tender species here. Amazing scent.
First flower on Magnolia ‘Porcelain Dove’.
Crataegus aprica covered in flower. Pink in bud opening white.
Tilia oliveri with gorgeous yellowish new growth.
Cornus ‘Venus’ making a splendid show even as a young plant.
Philadelphus purpurascens in Tin Garden.
Deutzia calycosa ‘Dali’
Deutzia x rosea ‘Yuki Cherry Blossom’
Deutzia longifolia (White Form)
This is another Pittosporum adaphniphylloides which was also leafless and which is not yet in full flower. Originally labelled Pittosporum daphniphylloides but now we have to add the ‘a’! I wonder if our three plants are all one species.
Magnolia rostrata now suddenly out. It was nearly over at Tremenheere on Friday.
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I remember back in middle school, we are
required to participate in a tree planting session. At first, I thought we are only doing it
for grades, but when we started doing it, I realized
the need to plant more trees and greens. Gardening helps up create a healthy
environment, from producing oxygen to creating some more greenery.
Not only that, flowers like azaleas and the bluebells are a sight to see.
It warms my heart to see such flowers flourish at Wakehurst place.
I shall visit the place soon.