…and dark blue nut-like fruits. Research suggests that little is known about this plant in Europe or the USA and it is a genuinely new introduction which we will now…

…days ago is now all bluebells (not Spanish either!). These have seeded themselves here in the last 20 plus years as a result of late grass cutting. bluebells bluebells 2016…

…CHW A fine Easter weekend. I saw the first bluebell in flower at Burncoose 3 days ago but it was raining and my camera does not like the rain!This is…

…with its blue flower cones opening creamy white. Stout densely hairy shoots say Hilliers who also say plants of this name are in fact Abies forrestii var. smithii. Clare bought…

…was a delicate pink. Now it has turned to a shade of light blue with some outer florets turning green while others exhibit red/purple blotches on the fading whitish flowers….

…gales. If you grow 30ft in 10 years this is the risk you run. Very few light blue flowers like last year. Paulownia kawakamii Magnolia globosa with a good show…

…are poor but they do show blue or great tit damage where the flowers have been partially dismembered to get at the nectar at the base of the flower. Since…

…away. Sadly too tender to plant out. Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’ Plectranthus argentatus nicely in flower. A touch of blue in the individual flowers on the flower spikes. Plectranthus argentatus Plectranthus…

…Symplocus paniculata simply plastered in blue berries. Last year there were only a few here and there. The drought has brought its own benefits in the seed production of plants…