…filmmakers noticing I sneak a few plant pictures.The first aerial layers are in place on a magnolia. Karol and Asia have been busy but we will need bigger ‘balls’ for…

…My vote so far is 6/10. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x Magnolia ‘JC Williams’ Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x Magnolia ‘JC Williams’ We had all missed a very big Pinus insignis branch…

…– FJW Puffkins left us after at least 18 years. 1982 – FJW South Georgia retaken. First swallow seen. 1968 – FJW Shy flowering of Big Leafed Rhodo’s. 1959 –…

…break the allen scythe cutter bar. Stones all raked off This small big leafed rhododendron seedling was moved to make way for the digger clearing the stumps but has resettled…

…Hat’. Camellia ‘High Hat’ Fruits nearly ripe on Schefflera pauciflora (WWJ 1199). Schefflera pauciflora Schefflera pauciflora 2021 – CHW Real frost again on New Year’s Day.Big leafed rhododendrons expressing their…

…drizzle all morning. Nevertheless it is nearly as bad now as 1976. The only big plus is that Jamie and the team have spent several days trying to save the…

…it opens but this quickly fades. I have planted too big a tree too near the drive and pruning soon. Magnolia ‘Alixeed’ Magnolia x proctoriana is now a big tree;…

…serrulatus Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ just out. Also a newly planted group and with loads of flower. Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ Then a big excitement. A new Enkianthus campanulatus variety…

…to restore wildflower meadows. Big risks of cliff falls (as we have had before with cattle) and I doubt that ponies on their own can really keep the bracken and…

…walls re-slated with some holes filled in but other big ones still to do where the water build up smashed through the wall a decade or more ago. Much of…