…Ruby’ x ‘F J Williams’ Tom Hudson’s gift of three Rhododendron ririei have never looked better. Rhododendron ririei Bluebells well up. Bluebells Narcissus cyclamineus looking very fine in the sun….

…the best of times and a collector’s item. This is not a species known in the wild in China but it came first to the UK as a form of…

…subsp Byzantinus Plenty of wild campion now replaces the primroses, daffodils and bluebells here too. Only three weeks since the bluebells faded and the grass took over. wild campion Erigeron…

…colour to our blue and pink Echium pininana. On looking it up it is Echium wildpretii which Burncoose stocks. Must grab a few seed from Roy later. From the Canary…

…deer damage nearby. It should have had a wire netting surround. Magnolia tamaulipana Bluebells amazing at Burncoose as ever on a Friends of Burncoose tour for 25 tonight. Bluebells Three…

…on the base of a mature beech tree. Golden Scalycap Magnolia ‘Yaeko’ still splendid. Ripening seed heads on Illicium griffithii (WW7 11911). Also the blue pods on Decaisnea fargesii. 2021…

…to wreck our economy on the basis of false science? China? Big Pharma? Certainly not democracy and the British way of life as the BBC gleefully engage in its dismemberment….

…out bluebell I have seen with true blue colours. Bluebells In the old Hardy & Bert’s nursery (former gardeners) I find a Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ seedling still full out in…

…days ago is now all bluebells (not Spanish either!). These have seeded themselves here in the last 20 plus years as a result of late grass cutting. bluebells bluebells 2016…

…and dark blue nut-like fruits. Research suggests that little is known about this plant in Europe or the USA and it is a genuinely new introduction which we will now…