…its main shoots last week to generate more side shoots which will make cuttings in late autumn. The milky bleeding from the cut stems has stopped. Euphorbia stygiana Euphorbia stygiana…

…are not showing atall. Normally it is entirely the other way around. Magnolia ‘Betty Jessel’ Sadly our best and largest Daphniphyllum macropodum is nearly dead. It looked sick last autumn…

…got planted out from an old nursery bed. Auklandii Garden This original Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ was hit by a tree last autumn when we were felling elderly beech trees. Surprisingly two…

…outside the back yard are simply perfect! Magical even. This one is on the mound through the arch. An unnamed seedling between Magnolia campbellii and Magnolia mollicomata. on the mound…

…Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ as good as I have seen it. This one had secondary flowers in the autumn. Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ The best magnolia in the garden today is ‘Star Wars’ which…

…says the botanists have now amalgamated the three species of autumn flowering schima which we grow here into just one species. Absurd! Schima wallichii Schima wallichii Schima wallichii An especially…

…collect rare enkianthus cuttings and to have a go at michelias too. Also our evergreen Carpinus kawakamii. Also in the autumn to collect magnolia and other seed. We need to…

…Walk. Moupinense has been good for three weeks.1929 – JCW A long spell of cold, a fair lot of Barbatum open, Lutescens has had some flower ever since the autumn,…

…carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica carnea ‘Myretoun Ruby’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Eva Gold’ – a new one in our catalogue this year. The golden foliage of autumn has faded. Erica x…

…frost where sheltered from the wind. Echium pininana Unexpectedly and contrary to what I had seen in the autumn the Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ by the Georgian Hall has no buds at…

…last autumn in anticipation of its demise. You can see the red seed stems. A lecturer at the University of York contacted us wanting large samples of bark and foliage…

…Cornus mas A large plant of Mahonia aquifolium with flowers just coming and still good red autumn tints on the leaves. Mahonia aquifolium Mahonia aquifolium Ribes laurifolium full out already….

…which germinated last year. Magnolia maccleurii Bethrocalyx crookshankii seeds collected at Tregrehan last autumn have already germinated vigorously. Ripe seed sown immediately! Bethrocalyx crookshankii Seedlings from the cold frame of…

…flower already. We now have several species of Illicium and they seem to flower in spring, summer and autumn. Illicium anisatum is sometimes out as early as this but by…

…absurdity in full flower is Photinia davidiana ‘Red Robin’. I photographed another Photinia davidiana form in flower in the autumn. Photinias are not normally noted for their flower which is…

…country. I think that the plants all knew this was coming and hence why, despite the mild autumn, everything is well behind last year. The garden has not moved at…

…new flower buds. Rhododendron hookeri Wind damage to the late autumn new growth on Quercus insigne. We are going to struggle to grow this I suspect. What would a frost…

…the taxonomy in New Trees. Fascinating plant and quite widespread, I have seen it in Arunachal Pradesh through Western China into Nth Vietnam. The best autumn colour form seems to…

…hodgsonii – magnolia like but too tender for us outdoors. Talauma hodgsonii Lysionotis in full flower in the conservatory. An autumn flowering herbaceous plant but clearly very tender. Lysionotis Mallotus…

…of the seeds by autumn. However the puzzle is why are there still flower spikes in profusion when the seed has already set? There were trailing female catkins evident in…