…equipment and Gerry, back from maternity leave, is taking the leading role. We complete 13 new videos about pruning and tidying herbaceous plants after flowering and in preparation for autumn.The…

…full new growth with its yellow winter needles now vanishing until the autumn. Pinus mugo ‘Zundert’ Philadelphus caucasicus now full out and very fine! Philadelphus caucasicus Philadelphus caucasicus Photinia niitakayamensis…

…a place for it really. Magnolia nitida Magnolia nitida Cladastris kentuckea is always the first tree here to show real autumn colour. I will try to photograph it each week….

…dahlia, asters and fruit will be “great for a change” they say but it is a bit early for autumn colour. The RHS used to have a Great Autumn Show…

…demand for this peculiar and spectacular new genus. Rhodoleia parvipetala (FMWJ 13422) Auklandii Garden camellias beside the main path – a review to help cutting taking in the autumn. Camellia…

…and contrary to what I had seen in the autumn the Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ by the Georgian Hall has no buds at all for this year. I fear some have dropped…

…painting nears completion. Strangely a five minute radio interview with Radio Stoke about how to grow magnolias! Clematis armandii with, as usual, a few autumn flowers on the castle front….

…creamy white and they have a sourish hawthorn smell. The leaf shape is different too. This one was planted only last autumn. subsp. cuneifolia subsp. cuneifolia subsp. cuneifolia subsp. cuneifolia…

…x incam ‘Okame’ Prunus x incam ‘Okame’ The first clump of our huge new autumn planted daffodil clumps (10 to 12) is just about out below the tower as well….

…autumn. Sizygium smithii First flower on a newly planted Viburnum fansipanense. Viburnum fansipanense We always knew that this Michelia compressa was mislabelled when sold to us. It has struggled to…