…be ‘Bishop Michael’. Magnolias Magnolias Magnolias Camellia ‘Fairy Wand’ Camellia ‘Fairy Wand’ Cotoneaster floccosus with berries. Cotoneaster floccosus Cotoneaster floccosus Cotoneaster floccosus A new sculpture entitled ‘The Green Man’ on…

…this year. Gingko biloba The unnamed record sized Camellia x williamsii is well out high up in the rain. Camellia x williamsii Plenty of green leaf still left on Magnolia…

…similar Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Bowling Green’. Both original plants were Wilson introductions in 1910 (W4106) which grew at Werrington. One is, I believe, now dead but I gave Mike…

…An unnamed evergreen symplocos species. Not Symplocos dryophylla but not that different. unnamed evergreen symplocos Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ still putting on a good show six to eight weeks after first…

…Sorbus dunnii still covered in fruits. Only planted a year or so ago. Sorbus dunnii A good few young evergreen trees blown over in the gales here and there. evergreen…

…pheasant The evergreen azaleas in Kennel Close have a winter garb which glows red in the sun. evergreen azaleas 2015 – CHW Magnolia ‘Betty Jessel’ still has nearly all its…

…good lunch at Burncoose yesterday.Azalea ‘Greenway’ with quite a few pale flowers above the greenhouse. Secondary flowers. Azalea ‘Greenway’ Azalea ‘Greenway’ A few rather insipid flowers emerging on Rhododendron ‘Christmas…

…Close. The rest are all still green. Carpinus caroliniana Carpinus caroliniana Photinia niitakayamensis with its first cluster of fruits that I have seen. Hilliers describe these as ‘pinkish-red’ but they…

…living up to its name. No sign of fading to green here. Staphylea colchica ‘Black Beauty’ Indigofera himachalensis (from Roundabarrow nurseries) flowering properly for the first time. A vigorous and…

…Cotoneaster glabratus seems to be evergreen as a young plant and becomes deciduous with age. Cotoneaster glabratus Then to the greenhouse. Plenty of buds on the very rare (but said…