The storm damaged Aesculus californica now cut back and reshooting.

Another group of Hydrangeas cut back at Red Linney.

A conker tree cut down where it had split in half over the summer.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ at its best.

Camellia japonica ‘High Hat’ with a very early flower.

Another Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’ out before its time.

Sarcococca saligna in full flower.

Roy Lancaster’s rose covered in small hips.

2025 – CHW

Photinia niitakayamensis with good leaf colour and berries.

Photinia parviflora with a few fruits.

Photinia villosa with leaves turning yellow and ripe fruit.

Sorbus eleonorae fruits still far from ripe.

A young Sorbus hupehensis in Kennel Close.

2024 – CHW
I collect a dozen ripe seed heads from Magnolia globosa. The seeds were on the point of shedding.

Autumn colour and swelling seeds on Halesia macgregorii.

The usual fine and varied colouring on Rhododendron schlippenbachii.

Good colour on Corylopsis sinensis ‘Spring Purple’.

A major surprise to find a dozen or so flowers out in October high up on an original Camellia x williamsii ‘St Ewe’.

Hedychium greenii is the last of the ‘Gingers’ to flower here.

First ever flowering of Magnolia grandiflora x M. coco (the latter a species from Java) on the top wall. Not that exciting unfortunately but another oddity for the collection.

2023 – CHW
A day or two in bed with a lurgy. Not a cold, not flu, and just a severe headache with sore throat. I had the COVID jab a fortnight ago but suspect I have still had mild COVID. Lizzie fine.Jaimie has picked the first Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ and Camellia ‘Polar Ice’.

Reasonable (Cornish) autumn colour on Rhododendron canadense.

Colour showing on Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide’.

The large clump of unnamed Camellia x williamsii on the drive is well out in October which is a new first for me. November usually – October never! A single storm battered flower or, possibly, the passing tarmac machine.

Tarmac relaying and potholes all now repaired.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’ now full out but not nearly as good a show as last year albeit a month later.

Reasonable autumn colour on Lindera umbellata.

The evergreen Stachyurus yunnanensis with spring flowers readily apparent.

2022 – CHW
Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ has improved markedly in a week above 4-in-Hand.

Overnight Liriodendron tulipifera ‘Aureovariegata’ has started to turn yellow as a result of the northerly winds recently.

Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ well out now at the top of Burns Bank. The other 6 sasanqua varieties here are not showing yet.

Two of the four Nyssa’s on Burns Bank starting to turn lower down. One is ‘Wisley Bonfire’ but not on the planting plans.

Neither is this Viburnum species and label gone. Much eaten by deer. In fact none of this area has been properly mapped and recorded (unless I am missing a page of the planting plans c.2000 – 2010).

A 2017 planted Malus hupehensis with its fruits now completely red. Unlike those we saw in Old Park last week.

Malus ‘Comtesse de Paris’ with its fruits turning yellow. Also 2017 planted but has not fruited properly before.

Fagus longipetiolata has little autumn colour of note.

Stewartia monadelpha not quite there yet.

First flower buds on a recently planted Polyspora speciosa (KWJ 12204).

We now have 4 different species of Polyspora but the identification remains confused and the taxonomists will have a field day soon changing names.

First flowers now out in the sun high up on one of the Camellia taliensis. I have missed these flower earlier this week.

Next February’s flower buds on Magnolia zenii swelling up already.

2021 – CHW
I think this fungus is birch polypore or Piptoporus betulinus which is relatively common in the UK but only growing on dying or dead birch trees.

I am less sure of this one but I think it is grey spotted amanita – Amanita excelsa var. spissa – if only because of the white frills which you can just see on its stem here. Another widespread and common species in deciduous or mixed woodland.

One seldom sees ‘runner bean’ seedpods like this on our wisterias.