…to grow outside but here it has survived its second winter. Halleria lucida I have been trying to find where I had planted Viburnum hoangliense for 18 months and finally…

…winter gales looked black and nearly dead – today they are 20ft tall and coming nicely into flower. Pink buds opening to blue. They will quickly die after flowering and…

…Styrax japonicus Styrax japonicus The Rosa bankiae ‘Lutea’ which we pruned hard and shaped in the winter is reshooting vigorously. Rosa bankiae ‘Lutea’ The newspapers have been full of a…

…of Lampranthus Drosanthemum candens. Drosanthemum candens Drosanthemum candens Here is most of the Aeonium collection which survived the snow and endless rain of the winter and spring. Not everything made…

…Sanpei Tsubaki Camellia sasanqua Sekiyo Camellia sasanqua Setsugekka Camellia sasanqua Showa No Sakae Camellia champetre Sweet Emily Kate Camellia champetre Sweet Jane Camellia classique Tom Pouce Camellia classique Winter Gem…

…it has few flowers this year after the cold winter. Despite there being few flowers out the ground is carpeted with buds pecked in half by blue tits seeking the…

…fruits like those of a sweet chestnut.This 2008 planted tree is labelled Castanopsis chinensis. It is not evergreen as you would expect a Castanopsis to be. However, there is winter…

…a huge Magnolia lanuginosa (Michelia velutina) with a copious amount of seeds in late winter. Do you have that species? if not we can keep one for you. […] From:…

…Disaster with the 500 or so Acer palmatum varieties Merrilliopanax alpinus has been dormant over winter. Look at its extraordinary new leaves with dark brown upsides initially. Merrilliopanax alpinus Berberidopsis…

…lindleyi, Rhododendron edgeworthii and Rhododendron ‘Praecox’. The Burncoose garden is looking great and we plot clearance of the area around the two huge beech trees which fell in the winter….

…Magnolia wilsonii (ex DJHC 98369). Magnolia wilsonii 2021 – CHW Flowers again this year on Trachycarpus wagnerianus despite the trunk half blowing over last winter. Trachycarpus wagnerianus Another exceptional magnolia…

…delicate and pretty lacecap flowers but clearly a bit tender. I lost this outside at Burncoose at 4ft tall after a cold winter. Hydrangea lobbii Hydrangea lobbii Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Silver…

…up next winter. Metrosideros Metrosideros Akebia quinata ‘Alba’ is now a dense mat of growth 20ft up this wall. You can clearly see the male and female flowers in the…

…winter the birds have ignored this tree. Could not find a definitive leaf to check. Perhaps a Sorbus intermedia Views across the ‘Japanese’ garden with the first camellias (x williamsii…

…about to break on leafless branches than these photographs show. Magnolia nitida Magnolia nitida Magnolia nitida When you look at the old trunk you can see where the 1963 winter…

…the quantity of mature growth. The juvenile growth propagates easily from cuttings. Xanthocyparisus vietnamensis Little winter’s wind damage on the tender Ternstroemia gymnanthera. Just a bit of reddish blotching on…

…humile Despite the mild winter a lot of our older big leafed rhododendrons have hated the winds. They did not grow much in the last two dry summers, over flowered,…

…are described a little vaguely and there is no reference to the bare and leafless winter stems on our P. taxifolia. Prumnopitys taxifolia Prumnopitys taxifolia Prumnopitys taxifolia Prumnopitys taxifolia Young…

…its variegated foliage looking better than usual after winter. Only small flowers. Camellia japonica ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia japonica ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia reticulata ‘Miss Tulare’ with even more enormous flowers than usual. Camellia…

…it is tender and gets cut to the ground each winter. Not here for this Crûg wild collection plant which is now 10-12ft tall in as many years. Stachyurus lancifolia…