…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…

…being fairly early years for a little colour.The first excellent and darker Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ seedling in Old Park is just out. Look at the colour in a fallen petal! Magnolia…

…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…

…Christoph has passed up by with little rain by comparison to the north and only minor gales. It has however blown open a few flowers very high up on the…

…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…

…x williamsii ‘Donation’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Donation’ 2018 – CHW First flowers on Rhododendron moupinense a little later than last year I think. Rhododendron moupinense Rhododendron moupinense Disaster with the…

…turning yellow. Also 2017 planted but has not fruited properly before. Malus ‘Comtesse de Paris’ Malus ‘Comtesse de Paris’ Fagus longipetiolata has little autumn colour of note. Fagus longipetiolata Stewartia…

…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…

…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….

…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…