…which we are now assembling to plant in the autumn/spring in the Kitchen Garden now it is completely cleared. A lot more to obtain before we start to lay it…

…new clearing at the very top of the Giddle Orchard ready for replanting in the autumn. I will enjoy thinking about what would grow well there over the summer. Perhaps…

…this after the trip around which is a novelty for this winter.Rhododendron concatenans has many flowers by Donkey Shoe but I think these are a secondary autumn effort as the…

…of pink on the reverse of the odd petal. From the autumn colour seen last autumn on this young plant I suspect it may well in fact be Stewartia rostrata….

…the wrong place and moved to the new rhododendron area last autumn. Laureliopsis philippiana Lindera umbellata already in full leaf. If it did flower I didn’t catch it. Lindera umbellata…

…grossly over-flowered. I fear it will now die. Rhododendron keysii Viburnum prunifolium in full flower. When I photographed this in fruit last autumn I fear I photographed the wrong plant…

…of the huge turkey oak felled last autumn as a threat to traffic on the main A39 road. huge turkey oak felled last autumn Magnolia ‘Genie’ flowering early in the…

…look at the shape of the flowers. Camellia ‘Nobilissima’ Camellia ‘Nobilissima’ Salix udensis ‘Golden Sunshine’ not bad at all as autumn colour in the sun, although we would normally grow…

…‘Rising Sun’ covered in pink seed capsules. Euonymus hamiltonianus ‘Rising Sun’ Vaccinium corymbosum with early autumn colour. Vaccinium corymbosum Not a day to be out at sea. Not a day…

…Cornish elm (Ulmus minor subsp. angustifolia) with decent autumn colour just above Roger’s Quarry. Ulmus minor subsp. angustifolia Planting and wiring complete by the fallen acer and on all the…