…Peruvian species which the reference books say is indigo-black in flower. Rather bluer here and a rather nice thing which is supposed to be a late season flowerer. [I now,…

…or 6-7cm across. What about that for a flowering tree in a woodland garden in mid/late June. AND the gorgeous purple/black autumn colour to come. It is a no brainer…

…smell is disgusting. Jaimie says ‘cat’s piss’ but we have never had a cat! Ehretia dicksonii Ehretia dicksonii Seed forming in Symplocos dryophylla which will eventually turn blue-black and Asia…

…macrocarpum. Rhederodendron macrocarpum Rhederodendron macrocarpum Schefflera alpina has extraordinary brown or nearly black new growth. I have never seen this before. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Another dead mature magnolia! This…

…drop before they ripen and turn black. Prunus padus ‘Colorata’ Tilia kiusiana still not quite out. Tilia kiusiana The wind has taken out the top of our best young Embothrium…

…is speeding its final demise. Aesculus wilsonii This young (grafted) Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ tried to flower last November and the buds turned to black mush. Despite the few setting seeds…

…‘Magical Beauty’ Allium ‘Millennium Lavender Bubbles’ Allium ‘Millennium Lavender Bubbles’ Geranium ‘Hocus Pocus’ with near black leaves. Geranium ‘Hocus Pocus’ 2020 – CHW Sloes forming up nicely but only just…

…for the Charity Clay Shoot on Saturday. water meadows Scaffolding goes up to paint the windows on the towers. Scaffolding Compare these dry parkland pictures to 1976 and you can…

…ripe reddish turning black seeds. If it did not propagate so easily from cuttings there might be a point in collecting them. The foliage is starting to go purple and,…

…plenty of clusters of berries which are turning blue-black. Cornus hemsleyi Cornus hemsleyi Conversely, the equally shrubby Cornus torreyi has just finished flowering. Cornus torreyi A few flowers high up…

…what a tractor is doing in the watermeadows (cutting rushes) brings me to the rather dull Cornus walteri and its trusses of black berries. The tree is still in full…

…old dead snakebark maples with the usual black fungal infections at the bases. dead snakebark maples Secondary new growth on the tops of Lithocarpus lepidocarpus planted in 2008. Euonymus hamiltonianus…

…both flowers and berries. Callicarpa shirasawana Callicarpa shirasawana Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus with its globular succulent black fruits hanging on the leafless tree. Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus Photinia niitakayamensis…

…Path has finally got going. We lost the other young plant by George’s Hut. What spectacular black autumn colour this new species has! We have yet to see any flowers…

…moupinensis with large black fruits. The first time we have seen these on a young plant. Cotoneaster moupinensis The seeds I photographed earlier on Sorbus wilsoniana have now turned an…

…seed tassels. Carpinus caroliniana ‘Red Fall’ Carpinus caroliniana ‘Red Fall’ First black fruits ever on Crataegus chlorosarca. Crataegus chlorosarca Crataegus tanacetifolia covered in yellowish fruits. Crataegus tanacetifolia Crataegus tanacetifolia Crataegus…

…a form/specimen as the one which died here this year or Tom’s plant seen yesterday) covered in ripening seeds. They were black and ripe rather earlier last year. Schefflera macrophylla…

…the Himalayas with red fruits which will eventually go black according to the reference books. This is one of the few Viburnum species with paniculate flower clusters which I have…

…– CHWA Cercidiphyllum japonicum planted in 1991 below Slip Rail is moving from a gorgeous yellow to having tinges of black. With the sun on it it is quite a…

…covered in secondary flowers. Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’ Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’ Ficus pumila with a large crop of ripe blue/black figs. Far more than I have ever seen before on this…