…to admire their wonderful snowdrop collection. Something I know very little about although galanthophilia is a well-known gardening passion for some. I can well see why! Some varieties were over…

…Room. A dense mat of a climber much favoured by nesting birds and especially flycatchers in summer. Clematis armandii 2016 – CHW Mum’s former birthday. She would have been 83…

…camellias later.Time to look at a little of the nursery properly between the violent squalls and rain that are the tail end of Storm Ciara.Camellia ‘Betty Sheffield Supreme’ in the…

…some Cyclamineus open, Maximus open and a little colour. 1906 – JCW Picked a seedling in comp in the Tin Garden off Artemis x Porto. 1899 – JCW Chionodoxa shows…

…Taiwanese use the stems to make drinking vessels. I have little hope of this reshooting from lower down the trunk even if one side is still green at the base….

…plicata 2005 – FJW Magnolia flower can be seen from the front door.1992 – FJW A little rain fell.1990 – FJW A fresh flower on original Mag sprengeri diva (Michael…

…door in February! arum lily Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ now at its best a little late this year so it has missed most of our shooting parties and no easy…

…JCW Have cut nearly all the gladiolus, Buddleias are fair, one of Wilson’s Hydrangeas are good, very little else. The 1917 winer killed the gladiolus. 1916 – JCW Romneya very…

…and Sutchuenense, Red Admiral etc. Far too early. Trewidden Argenteum has been first class.1969 – FJW First snowdrops.1958 – FJW Period of frost and snow left. 8° frost – little…

…or three flowers on the original Magnolia campbellii. Not as ‘bad’ as I had feared. Magnolia campbellii One flower out on the yellow form of Magnolia campbellii. A little misshapen…

…Auklandii Garden First flower out on Rhododendron ririei. Again this is a little later than in recent years. Rhododendron ririei 2019 – CHW The first Michelia doltsopa is now showing…

…and very little to be seen, it is cold for planting, the wind has been East for some time. 1924 – JCW R lutescens the early form is vg and…

…year’s performance would seem to disprove this a little? Snowdrops emerge very quickly and can easily be missed for a day or two. One day nothing and three days later…

…leaves on the Gunnera manicata which proves how little frost we have had thus far. The huge rhizomes look as though the new leaves are not far away either. Gunnera…

…them eaten by birds. Sorbus ‘Pearly King’ One of many Cornus florida varieties on the drive still to retain a fair set of last year’s leaves. I have noticed this…

…there is still little sign of autumn colouring. Very odd! Hydrangea quercifolia 2016 – CHW The tiny Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ planted in 1955 opposite the Georgian Hall is, for the first…

…Prunus laurocerasus ‘Marbled White’ as we know it is actually a Castlewallan sport and is now again recognised under that name. Very little reversion to be seen on the original…

…pipiterum – purple leaved. A more mature plant than anything we have at home. The foliage has paled a little in autumn. Zanthoxylum pipiterum Autumn colour on Enkianthus serrulatus. Tom…

…inlet. Another inlet Another inlet Cyathea dealbata growing away and little frost damage. Cyathea dealbata Cyathea dealbata Cyathea dealbata Another landing point. Another landing point Acacia melanoxylon is a huge…

…a Dodecadenia – species unknown. Trengwainton has Dodecadenia grandiflora which was collected in Nepal in 1983. The IDS website has very little information on Dodecadenia and its not listed in…